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True State of the Planet Paperback – May 1, 1995

by Ronald Bailey (Author)

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In the 25 years since the first Earth Day in 1970, the environmental movement has spawned a new generation of scientists asking vital questions about the true state and fate of the planet. But, surprisingly, some of their answers -- and even the questions themselves -- contradict the movement's deepest beliefs. Why are reserves of oil, precious metals, and other natural resources more plentiful than ever before? Why has the population growth of the twentieth century brought rising standards of living for nearly all? In The True State of the Planet ten premier scholars shatter the myths of overpopulation, food, global warming, and pesticides, while redirecting environmentalists' concerns to the far more urgent problems of fisheries, fresh water, and third-world pollution -- and the political causes behind them.

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Bailey, the noted (or notorious, to some ecologists) author of Eco-Scam! (1993), here enlists a dozen scientists to explain what is and isn't known about the changing environment. Contrary to this year's silver jubilee of Earth Day sloganeering, the atmosphere is cooling, not warming; world population is not outstripping food production or most material resources; however, the activists are correct about tropical deforestation and overfished oceans. The question is how to ameliorate problems. The prominent green organizations adhere to regulatory and prohibitionist principles; whereas this set of writers favor the private management of resources, believing that to be the path to green benefits and material wealth. Prescriptions aside, this info-rich work is crammed with tabular data about biodiversity, pesticides, and air quality and is supported by a guarded, footnoted text. As its views compete with those published by the Sierra Club and Worldwatch Institute, among others, libraries may want to include this book in their acquisition plans, which BKL's Earth Day feature [Ap 1 95] might guide. Gilbert Taylor

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Ronald Bailey is producer of the national weekly public television series Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg and author of Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse.

Paperback: 472 pages
Publisher: Free Press (May 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0028740106
ISBN-13: 978-0028740102
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4 customer reviews
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- #22732 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Biology
- #29226 in Books > Science & Math > Environment

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The True State of the Planet is an eye opener. It goes behind all of today's headlines and gets into the meat of what is really going on. So much media hype, so little time to discern the truth, but with this book, the truth is at hand in one convenient place.

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A REJECTION OF MANY ENVIRIONMENTALISTS' CLAIMS ABOUT OUR CURRENT CONDITION

August 13, 2012

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This 1995 book contains a number of essays on topics including Population; Global Warming; Biodiversity, etc. Editor Ronald Bailey wrote in the Prologue, "(this book) seeks to close the widening gap between environmental activists and environmental science. In these pages, eleven leading researchers present the latest facts ... and other trends. They will puncture several first-wave illusions, but they will also refocus our priorities on the very real problems still to be faced." (Pg. 6)

One essayist notes, "(chloroflurocarbons) are very powerful greenhouse gases, and... they add significantly to the overall greenhouse effect. They destroy some ozone in the stratosphere, and because ozone also operates as a greenhouse gas, the destruction of ozone by the CFCs may ultimately minimize the total greenhouse contribution of the CFC molecules." (Pg. 87)

Another states, "Commercial logging is not a major cause of deforestation; expanding agriculture is... The developed countries ... appear to have largely completed forestland conversion to agriculture and have achieved relative land use stability. By contrast, the developing countries in the tropics are still in a land conversion mode." (Pg. 204)

Another essayist says, "Although the Clean Water Act and other legislation has greatly reduced the pollution of U.S. waters, significant amounts continue to be generated annually. A particlarly difficult question has been the huge number of extremely small pollution sources, from backyards to barnyards, that cumulatively contribute perhaps 50 percent of the total pollution in some areas." (Pg. 302)

An essayist admits, "There is no longer any real dispute over the fact that the major fishing fleets are simply too effective and too numerous." (Pg. 306) But the Epilogue to the book adds, "most conucopians would probably note the rapid expansion of private aquaculture and suggest that if, in fact, oceanic resources do disappear, the world will have already created adequate substitutes." (Pg. 381)

Although somewhat "dated" now, this book is nevertheless a comprehensive look at the environment from a critical conservative perspective, and will remain of interest to many readers.

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Balance to Malthusian / Neo-Malthusian Environmentalists

February 9, 2000

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This volume presents a well reasoned and heavily documented balance to Malthusian and neo-Malthusian authors. Chocked full of statistical data, it is quite at odds with what many of the hyper environmentalists are saying. The author of the epilogue creatively divides the two camps into the doomsayers and the cornucopians, as he seeks for a balance between the two. This is an excellent choice for readers who are concerned about the environment!

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A wonderful antidote to environmental apocalytics

September 16, 1999

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Journalist Bailey enlists the services of ten scientists who, one by one, expose the humbug of radical environmental apocalyptics who are trying to terrify the population into submission. Bailey deserves a prize for his courage and initiative.

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