From Library Journal
Over 25 years of writing a syndicated environmental advocacy newspaper column has equipped award-winning journalist Flattau with the insight and ammunition to produce this contentious work, which refutes outspoken opponents of the environmental movement. Flattau covers every current environmental topic (global warming, endangered species, population growth, radon, etc.) while pointing out flaws in the rhetoric of the "environmental bashers," as he calls them, with entire chapters devoted to Ronald Reagan, Dixy Lee Ray, and Rush Limbaugh. Although his strident writing style borders on the fanatical, his well-documented rebuttals are credible and convincing. A more academic approach to the same topic is Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich's Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (Island, 1996). A useful resource for those interested in environmental topics; recommended for public libraries and environmental collections.?Maureen Delaney-Lehman, Lake Superior State Univ. Lib., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Flattau executes a thorough and relentless attack on corporations and politicians who would weaken environmental policy...The book provides thoughtful material for readers on both sides of the environmental debate -- CHOICE Magazine, June 1998
Flattau offers a compendium of concise, fact-packed and invigoratingly sarcastic refutations of all the common arguments against environmentalism -- Sierra Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1998
Flattau's long career has exposed him to the anti-environmental movement's every stratagem... -- Washington City Paper, May 1998
Flattau's well-documented rebuttals are credible and convincing... -- Library Journal, January 1998
No one is in a better position to puncture the balloons of the Rush Limbaugh types that Ed Flattau -- Stuart Udall, Former Secretary, US Department of the Interior, January 1998
Flattau offers a compendium of concise, fact-packed and invigoratingly sarcastic refutations of all the common arguments against environmentalism -- Sierra Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1998
Flattau's long career has exposed him to the anti-environmental movement's every stratagem... -- Washington City Paper, May 1998
Flattau's well-documented rebuttals are credible and convincing... -- Library Journal, January 1998
No one is in a better position to puncture the balloons of the Rush Limbaugh types that Ed Flattau -- Stuart Udall, Former Secretary, US Department of the Interior, January 1998
