Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children About The Environment [Paperback]

Michael Sanera (Author), Jane S. Shaw (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 1999

Facts, Not Fear is a guidebook countering the irresponsible claims of environmental extremists, giving a more balanced view of the many environmental issues encountered today. In simple, non-technical language, authors Michael Sanera and Jane Shaw explain the myths and facts concerning many major environmental topics, and show you how to set the record straight.

Each of the 20 topical chapters was reviewed by acknowledged experts, and include answers to questions about the environment commonly asked by children and suggestions for easy-to-do activities.

Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Fraser Institute; Canadian ed edition (June 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0889751943
• ISBN-13: 978-0889751941
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,776,303 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Reshelved as fiction, July 25, 2011

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Gary Bridgman (Midtown Memphis) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment (Paperback)

I found a copy of this book in a used bookshop located in the main branch of the Memphis library. It was on a shelf with nonfiction books about childhood education. I moved it to the "Christian Fiction" shelf. (My apologies to C.S. Lewis for staining the dignity of his works by doing this.)
There is plenty of room in environmental studies for criticism, for close examination of the data, and for factoring in economic sustainability (being careful not to impose too many "Whole Foods values" on a "Kroger/Safeway economy."
But this book has nothing to do with science-based criticism or sustainability. It's straight out of the bowels of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

36 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Accessible and well-written survey of environmental issues, July 24, 1998

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Ananda Gupta (Columbia, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Facts Not Fear: A Parent's Guide to Teaching Children about the Environment (Paperback)

This book is the most accessible of the free-market environmentalist works.

It is sad that many people will write it off out of closed-mindedness and intellectual intolerance. That we ought to consider the costs as well as the benefits of slowing economic growth to benefit the environment, or that some well-intentioned environmental policies have disastrous unintended consequences -- these and other ideas in the book cut against the dogma accepted by the popular press and the education establishment.

Contrary to what some of the other reviews tell us, the logic and scientific authority in this book is impeccable, and the benefits of sound environmental policy do not go unremarked. (If you want poor logic and duplicitous omission of facts, go to Zero Population Growth -- I had the pleasure of attending one of their high-school workshops, and it was frightening indeed.)

Highly recommended. If you want your child to receive a more balanced view of enviromental iss! ues than he or she may be getting in school, or if you want a quick survey of those issues for yourself, look no further.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Embarrassing, November 13, 2011

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Drkevin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children About the Environment (Paperback)

"Don't worry be happy" might suffice as an attitude to get you through the day, but it is hardly a smart ideology with which to think about our environmental concerns. This book is trash. It is part of the right wing propaganda machine that denies fundamental, well-established environmental science. It was an embarrassment when published; more recent science--climate science in particular--demonstrates just how crazily wrong headed it is. Don't believe a word of it, and read real science to inform yourself about environmental matters.