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The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them Hardcover – April 22, 2008

by Iain Murray (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 354 pages
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing (April 22, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1596980540
  • ISBN-13: 978-1596980549
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
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168 of 189 people found the following review helpful
Unintended Consequences?
By D. W. MacKenzie on May 15, 2008
Format: Hardcover
Iain Murray has done a real service with The Really Inconvenient Truths. Perhaps a majority of us are now environmentalists. Yet the track record of environmentalist legislation and regulation is unenviable. There are problems with the incentives created by many bills.

The ban on DDT might have saved the live save the lives of a few birds, but it has cost deaths of Africans from malaria. Ethanol increases food prices. The endangered species act creates perverse incentives. There are what we might term as unintended consequences, as far as most environmentalists are concerned. It is important to note, however, that there does exist a lunatic fringe of the environmentalist movement, who will interpret part of the results discussed in this book as a job well done.

In some respects The Really Inconvenient Truths is unremarkable. Much of its analysis derives from common sense economics. Some of its examples are already known. This in not the first time someone has noted a connection between malaria and the DDT ban. However, The Really Inconvenient Truths is quite remarkable in the current political environment. This is a very politically incorrect book. As Murray himself notes, there is certain populist fervor among environmentalists. Murray deserves credit for taking on such a emotionally and politically charged issue.

Part of the problem of environmentalism is the conceit of social democrats and socialists who think that the world is made better through conscious planning. Yet most environmentalists are just normal well intentioned people, whose faith in government solutions has caused them to implement the wrong solutions. Why is it that the environmentalist movement retains its momentum despite the severe unintended consequences of its policies?Read more ›
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58 of 64 people found the following review helpful
From a former environmentalist teacher, now a conservationist steward
By DWD's Reviews VINE VOICE on August 9, 2008
Format: Hardcover
I once proudly called myself an environmentalist. Now I am a conservationist and a steward.

I believe some wild spaces should be saved. I recycle (A lot!). I coordinate my school's paper recycling program. I own several of those little flourescent bulbs and I use them every day. I don't spray chemicals all over my yard. I don't dump motor oil down the drain. I pick up garbage when I walk the dog. I go camping. I go to the Earth Day celebration in downtown Indianapolis because it's a great place to get information on clean-up events and they give away free trees! I also love it when they assume that I must be an ultra-liberal just to be there!

Now that I've said all of this, let me say that I am not an environmentalist. I used to be. Way back when, when I first started teaching, I showed movies to my kids in world geography that said the world as we know it is going to end by the year 2000. Mass flooding, all of the fish dead, mass starvation, etc. They were older versions of the "Inconvenient Truth" that featured Hollywood stars and quoted heavily from Gore's "Earth in the Balance".

I am now embarrassed by all of that.

Why? Because I fell for the hype and did not do simple things like check sources and see if what I was being told was backed up by other testimony. Sometimes, simple facts get in the way (like Ehrlich's "Population Bomb" book predictions never quite came true, like those predictions in the videos I showed to my class) and make it hard to follow that line of reasoning any longer.

So, what are the 7 environmental catastrophes:

1. DDT & Malaria in Africa
2. Ethanol as fuel
3. The "Pill" and its effect on fish downstream from water treatment plants.
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71 of 83 people found the following review helpful
Well Researched and Balanced Environmentalism
By S. Peek VINE VOICE on June 13, 2008
Format: Hardcover
As anyone who pays any attention to current events knows, energy and food prices are spiralling upward. Many do not know the reasons for that.

In this scholarly review of the subject, Iain Murray explores those issues and several others. He not only provides the reasons for many of our current predicaments, he also supplies solutions.

As the subtitle states, this book deals with 'seven environmental catastrophes that liberals don't want you to know about - because they helped cause them.' Although many environmentalists likely have good motives, the unintended consequences of the policies that they push have been and continue to be disastrous for our planet and the human race.

One example is the ban on the 'dreaded DDT'. Mr. Murray does a great job of showing how that ban has resulted in the deaths of a countless number of children in Africa due to malaria.

Another is ethanol. Murray makes the case that the ethanol mandates enacted by the U.S. Congress have led to much higher food prices and shortages. Additionally, it is ineffective in battling the 'problem'. Ethanol may produce 1/3 less greenhouse gas than gasoline, but it uses more gasoline to produce it than it replaces.

The Yellowstone Fire of 1988 is another great environmental tragedy brought about by the policies of so-called environmentalists. The war against logging and the anti controlled burn crusades created a powder keg. The fuel buildup was so huge that a massive fire was inevitable.

In the case of The Endangered Species Act, Mr. Murray shows how it has created disincentives to protect some of the species it claims to champion while at the same time wreaking havoc on our economy.Read more ›
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Incredibly well-written book. A masterpiece. Naomi Klein + ...

Incredibly well-written book. A masterpiece. Naomi Klein + Al Gore should read this.

Published 2 days ago by Tony Meyer
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I was forced to read this book because a student in my environmental policy class wanted to do a book report on it (one of the class assignments) and I had never seen it before. Read more

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Needs an update to include recent disasters!

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Iain Murray breaks down in simple clear language the understanding of lies on the left and clearly articulates how to confront them with simple elegant truth.

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It is important to understand what liberals have caused so as to know where they want to take the USSA.

Published 18 months ago by Roberto E. Benitez
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You will not get the real truth from talking heads or politicians, that's for sure! This book will empower you with facts that are hard to deny. Read more

Published 23 months ago by P. Hinds
A good read to examine the collected facts that are ignored by many of...

I really enjoyed reading the book and learned a lot about the counter information that is nearly always ignored. Read more

Published on December 17, 2013 by Michael E. Mcmillan
Idiots, here is your leader!

Terrible, terrible, highly politicized total garbage. The author denies anthropogenic global warming, reels on scientists and completely discredits his opinion by clinging to his... Read more

Published on December 3, 2013 by Andrew Nicola
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Should be mandatory reading for anyone who teaches, or holds a job in government. Demonstrates well how environmental catastrophes are really almost always created by arrogant... Read more

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