Dr. Zubrin has written a very interesting and informative book about what he calls antihumanism. Anttumanism is the idea that that "humans are a cancer upon the Earth, a horde of vermin whose unconstrained aspirations and appetites are endangering the natural order". Dr. Zubrin describes the basic philosophy of antihumanism and how it has morphed from one political tendency and movement to another over the last several centuries. Dr. Zubrin begins his history of anithumanism was Thomas Malthus an his doctrine that population growth always outruns natural resources. Dr. Zubrin notes that Malthus considered humans like static bacteria in a petri dish who never modify their environment. Dr. Zubrin notes that humans, particularly free humans, are creators and innovators who for many thousands of years have changed their environment for the better. Thus Dr. Zubrins begins his critique of antihumanism by illustrating the arguments of the critics of Thomas Malthus.
Dr. Zubrin moves on his book to describes the horrific effect the antihumanists have on human existence. He narrates how Malthusian influenced led to sever famines in Ireland and India. He demonstrates how Nazi starvation and extermination policies derived from the antihumanism of biologist Ernst Haeckle and his acolytes. He notes how some of Charles Darwin's antihumanist ideas helped racism, super nationalism, and imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Darwinism also led the post World War I eugenics movement which involuntarily sterilized many people.
Dr. Zubrin writin about the period after World War II turns his attention to extreme population control undertaken by the United Sates and other countries that caused much human suffering. He details the environmental movement and its assault against human life, human labor and human living conditions. He details Rachel Carson's pernicious anti DDT campaign which resulting in millions of deaths and disablements in Developing countries. He demonstrates how antihumanism gave birth to the malevolent campaigns against nuclear energy and global warming. Thus the antihumanist stands in opposition to the energy sources that are of the most benefit to humanity. In his focus section he provides very understandable focus sections on some of the basic science of nuclear energy and global warming.
And Dr. Zubrin's book is very readable. The book is a great source of information for the general reader of all levels of education and expertise.
However I do have a few quibbles with Dr. Zubrin's book. In one instance he states that the German population of World War II knew about the extermination of the Jewish population and other Nazi atrocities. This view is not correct. The Nazis did not advertise their death camps but hid the information. According Madeleine Albright
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
the Jews themselves did not know about their intended murder before they reached the death camps until very late in the World War II period. Note the Nazis carried out their atrocities under the cover of war.
I also feel that Dr. Zubrin left out some of the better arguments against the global warming hoax. Carbon dioxide only reflects certain infrared frequencies of heat energy, most are already reflected by water vapor which is ten times more prevalent in the atmosphere. And carbon dioxide heat reflection has the filter effect. Each extra unit of carbon dioxide has less, much less, effect on the reflection of energy emitted from the earth than the unit placed in the atmosphere before it. And carbon dioxide does not stay in the atmosphere forever. The half life of a carbon dioxide molecule in the atmosphere is under twenty years according to many scientific studies. These facts are very strong negations of the anthropogenic global warming theory.
Yet Dr. Zubrin's book on anthumanism is invaluable. It is one of the first general histories of the anti people, anti technology, anti human progress antihumanism. And the book is very well written and very informative. The book is a must read.
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