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The Greenpeace Guide to Anti-Environmental Organizations (The Real Story Series)

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If you want to help sea lions do you turn to the Sea Lion Defense Fund? If you're disturbed about our nation's vanishing wetlands, do you send contributions to the National Wetlands Coalition? And if you're doing a project on global warming, do you turn to the Global Climate Coalition for information?

Then this handy little guide is for you. In an age when so many pro-industry groups have taken on the protective coloration of environmental groups with names indicating ecological concern or scientific objectivity, it's necessary to find out who's REALLY who. This guide is more like a dictionary for translating Orwellian, corporate Newspeak into plain English.

Thus, the Sea Lion Defense Fund aims to "thin out" the sea lion population; the National Wetlands Coalition is a coalition made up chiefly of oil and gas companies who want to limit preservation of wetlands; and the Global Climate Coalition consists of 50 US trade associations who are opposed to many air quality regs.

P.S.: You'll also find Gale Norton's organization in here: the Mountain States Legal Fund.

What bothers cultural conservatives about this little book is that it speaks the truth. If you don't believe it, make your own investigations into these organizations. What you will find is that some rich people are selfish and cynical, imbuing their organizations with the same mean-spirited attitude that they live by. They have forgotten The Bible's admonition against wealth without stewardship:

"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." Luke 12:48

I have read this book and it just doesn't make sense. I don't even have time to point out the reasons why. You should read this book too, but be wary.