Environment / Environmentalism
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Anderson, Terry L. & Donald R. Leal
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Free Market Environmentalism
Paperback, 300 pages, $18.95. (Palgrave; Revised edition 2001; ISBN 0312235038)

Bast, Joseph; Hill, Peter, & Rue, Richard
Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism
From a "free-market environmentalist" perspective, one of the best popular surveys of the full range of environmental issues. Constructive as well as critical. Cloth cover. (The Heartland Institute, Madison Books, Lanham, MD, 1994; ISBN 1568330286)

Budiansky, Stephen
Nature's Keepers: The New Science of Nature Management
For more than a century, nature lovers believed that preserving the wild meant keeping people out. Budiansky shows how the new science of mathematical ecology is helping us rescue our natural resources. (Free Press; ASIN: 0029049156; Out of print.)

Coffman, Michael S.
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Saviors of the Earth? : The Politics and Religion of the Environmental Movement
Coffman clearly documents the nature of the Environmental movement and how the public has been deceived. While no one doubts we have environmental problems, Coffman shows how our media with its advocacy journalism parrots environmental myths such as cataclysmic global warming and ozone holes supposedly caused by refrigerants. Far from crying wolf, Coffman clearly documents the agenda behind the environmental movement. The media has kept the public in the dark despite many thousands of scientists and Nobel Prize winners who have criticised environmental political decisions based on pseudoscience. (Review by jbeck@netspace.net.au) Paperback, $12.95. (Moody Press; 1994; ISBN: 080247327X)

Nash, Roderick F.
The Rights of Nature - A History of Environmental Ethics
This is a coherent, well-articulated philosophical argument for environmentalist ethical and social philosophy and its history. It includes the environmentalists' assessment of important legal-political events such as the Endangered Species Act and the "Should Trees Have Standing" Supreme Court legal brief on behalf of the Sierra Club - "give legal rights to forests, oceans, rivers and other so-called 'natural objects' in the environment - indeed, to the natural environment as a whole." The book ends with a chilling threat: "On the other side are advocates of anthropocentric ethics and environmental exploitation who ... derive substantial material benefits from their limited ethics. Some of them will not voluntarily abandon their beliefs and behavior no matter how vigorously the radical environmentalists insist. If this situation, with its intellectual and political similarities to antebellum America, promises once again to endanger domestic tranquillity, it is not the fault of history." Paperback, reprint edition, $19.95. (University of Wisconsin Press, 1990; ISBN 0299118444)

Peikoff, Leonard, ed
The Ominous Parallels - The End of Freedom in America
This book grew out of a series of lectures explaining the similarities between the violent "New Left" student uprisings of the 1960s and early '70s and the rise of Nazism in prewar Germany. Peikoff describes how the historical evolution of philosophical ideas - from Plato to Germany's own Kant and Hegel - corrupted the culture of Germany, making the rise of Nazism all but inevitable, and how the same philosophical themes have been gradually assimilated in America, leading to similar political trends as this alien ideology replaces the original Enlightenment ideas of the Founding Fathers. Peikoff shows how bad philosophical ideas have been passed on and absorbed into the cultures of both countries through a host of prominent and secondary intellectual figures right down to the political platforms and public positions of major political figures. He does not discuss the environmentalist movement and its German philosophical roots, but the principles and their relations in this book are so clear that the conclusions are inescapable. This book is indispensable to understanding how philosophical ideas and values lead an otherwise advanced culture to adopt dangerous political ideologies leading to disaster in action when they are accepted by the public at large. Soft cover. (Stein and Day, 1982; ISBN 0452011175)

Schwartz, Peter, ed, & Ayn Rand
Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
This is the latest book to describe the anti-man philosophical principles and vision inherent in environmentalism. The Schwartz essay, "The Philosophy of Privation", documents a host of recent incidents and statements from prominent environmentalists in which they reveal themselves as sacrificing mankind to nature as a matter of principle, and describes how these principles are manifestations of the German ideological influences that continue to infect Western culture. This is an expanded version of an earlier (1971) book of essays by Ayn Rand in which she addressed various anti-man, anti-civilization aspects of the New Left movement that was then prominent. The current edition was issued to expand on and update the original with essays on environmentalism and other contemporary cultural phenomena that evolved out of the New Left. One of the original essays, "The Anti-Industrial Revolution", anticipated the consequences and meaning of modern environmentalism when it was only beginning to emerge from the New Left as a distinct movement, and provides a fundamental understanding of environmentalists' hatred for mankind that is still not grasped by the public today. Soft cover. (Meridian, 1999; ISBN 0452011841)