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The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--because They Helped Cause Them |  | Author: Iain Murray
Creator: Robertson Dean
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 1433251027
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: June 2008
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Iain Murray's rollicking exposé reveals how environmental blowhards waste more energy, endanger more species, and actually kill more people than the environmental villains they finger.
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 check out other books he's published March 14, 2010
cafe au lait
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
Check out the other books this author has written on Amazon. He's just another ultra-conservative, Scottish- Christian fundamentalist who blames "liberals" for all the world's wrongs. Well, I have read about the Aral Sea (which is not even in the USA) and it is NOT liberals who stand accused of the travesty that has been occurring there since 1927. The blame has been given to rigid, controlling Soviet authorities, over-dependence on the cultivation of cotton, the rapid expansion of irrigation agriculture, totalitarian regimes, a controlled news media (which always goes with a totalitarian regime), inappropriate use of cost-benefit analyses and the Cold War. Of course, the fact that he mentions the pill as being part of a liberal agenda exposes him for the right-wing, Christian fundamentalist that he is. How did this book ever make it into print???
 Chock Full of Common Sense March 1, 2010
Chris Hambleton (Denver, Colorado)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first heard about this book on the Dennis Prager Show two years ago and ended up buying a copy later that week. For awhile I had a feeling that there were many things wrong with the environmental movement, but I didn't have the cold, hard facts to back those sentiments up. This book gave me those facts, along with more examples of the problems in the environmental movement. And it also exposed the Marxist/globalist nature of the movement's "custodians".
On the surface, environmentalism seeks to protect the earth and the multitudes of creatures and people that inhabit it. However, as one delves deeper into the movement, environmentalism begins to take on a religious nature. And at some point, the person finds themselves having to choose between which is of greater importance: the betterment of mankind or protecting the environment from mankind.
From a Christian perspective, man has been given dominion over the earth and its vast resources, but as caretakers, not parasites. This doesn't mean that we can or should be wasteful or irresponsible with those incredible resources, but as caretakers that we need to use them wisely and effectively. In order for both mankind and the environment to flourish, mankind needs to be responsible with the earth, but the earth also "needs" mankind to care for it.
As caretakers, should we place the environment over the well-being over our fellow caretakers? Do we have the right to deny life-saving, disease-killing products (like DDT) to less-developed countries and peoples in other parts of the world in the name of "saving the environment"? Which is more important: bird-eggs or people? Was mankind made for the benefit of the earth or was the earth made for the benefit of mankind? Or were both made for the benefit of the other?
I consider the environment as simply a very complex garden on a much larger scale. Every garden needs a gardener or it won't stay a garden for long. Without a gardener, every garden will devolve into a worthless weed-patch that will grow out of control and infest your lawn, fields, and other useful property. The gardener needs the garden to feed themselves and survive, but the garden needs the gardener for the same reason.
A balance must exist in order for both the earth and mankind to flourish. Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the "pendulum" swung too far toward mankind and the environment suffered at his expense. However, those within the environmental movement are now causing that pendulum to swing too far towards the earth at the expense of mankind. In the end, both will end up suffering needlessly, just as both suffered at the start of the Industrial Revolution.
The ban on DDT, the ethanol mandates, the limiting of CO2 are prime examples of the environmentalists putting the "garden" ahead of the "gardeners". Millions of people have died from malaria caused by the DDT ban - deaths that are simply inexcusable. Will the earth really be better off without this "extra population"? Of course not - it'll simply devolve faster into deserts and disease-ridden jungles (at least in the areas where malaria is rampant). As for the ethanol mandates, I can think of nothing more wasteful or immoral than burning perfectly good food while millions of people are starving. Is it better to burn food that humans or animals can consume and force many to starve, or is it better to burn fossil fuels that really have no other use? Which is the more responsible stance?
This book gives numerous, detailed examples of what lies at the heart of the environmental movement: control of earth's resources. If the environmentalists really cared about the earth, they wouldn't have enacted many of their policies. The majority of environmentalists and their policies are well-intentioned but misguided and utopian. The more radical of the environmentalists often betray their beliefs that mankind is a parasite and pollutant on the earth and should be exterminated in the name of saving the earth - with them surviving and being in control, of course.
The socialists/Marxists/communists believe that public ownership (with them in control) is much better than property in the hands of private citizens, though the environment suffers much less when it's private property (the Aral Sea and Yellowstone are prime examples of how public property frequently suffers).
Owners always care for their property much better than "renters" because they have an inherent incentive to do so: they want the value and condition of their property to increase even if they have no intention of selling it. Are people more likely to litter in the middle of their own backyard or in a park that no one really "owns"? Which type of person really has a vested interest in the environment: the owners or the renters?
Fortunately, people with common sense who really do care for the environment are having second thoughts on the environmentalist movement and are beginning to take a more balanced approach to "the gardener vs. the garden" dilemma. Universally, people want others to be honest and truthful with them, especially organizations and agencies that they support. And when others are not honest, people quickly stop believing and supporting them.
Unfortunately, many of the environmentalist organizations have been anything but truthful and that has recently been exposed in the global-warming movement by the exposure of their data-manipulations, falsifications, and conflicting interests (i.e. being shareholders of carbon-credit companies). And the recent blizzards across the country haven't been helping their cause either.
This book is a great resource for anyone who wants to know the history and truth of many of the leading environmental issues today.
My Books: The Time of Jacob's Trouble, Endeavor in Time
Icons of environmentalism February 5, 2010
Joel Barnes (Ottawa, Ontario)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
_The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About - Because They Helped Cause Them_, by Iain Murray (not to be mistaken with the Christian Reformed author of the same name), might have easily been titled "Icons of Environmentalism."
Murray shows many of the cherished accomplishments of liberal environmentalism to be, ironically enough, environmental disasters. For example, DDT bans have perpetuated the deaths of millions of Africans from malaria, endangered species acts have endangered endangered species (see also _Freakonomics_), wide-spread ethanol use in gasoline has created worldwide food shortages, and contraceptives and abortion drugs are major polluters. The list goes on.
In addition to looking at the disturbing track record of liberal environmentalism, Murray also provides a framework to help understand what's going on. He portrays the liberal environmental movement - and climate change in particular - as another attempt by the Left to institutionalize Marxism. Says Murray:
"If the working man is no longer oppressed, the central tenet of Marxism no longer applies, but surely there must be another victim of capitalism to take its place? Women and minorities have advanced themselves under free enterprise just as surely as have [sic] the working man, and so they are not ideal candidates.
"Luckily for the Left they have a victim ready on the shelf. This time it is one that will not exercise free choice in rejecting the ministrations of those who claim to speak for it. In the leftist's world view, the worker has been replaced by 'the Environment.'
"The transition was seamless, because of a long history of cooperation between Marxists and environmentalists. Earth Day is held every year on April 22, a date deliberately chosen because it was Lenin's birthday." (p. 209)
Murray also notes the extreme nature of the liberal environmental movement, how they tend to view humans not as part of the environment, but as pollutants. Their extreme vision of Eden is not complete until Adam and Eve have been removed. And this is reflected in some of the laws and regulations passed in the U.S.
Murray's book is very helpful in demonstrating the "perverse incentives" and unintended, harmful consequences of environmental laws and regulations that are driven by socialist ideas. Thankfully, his book doesn't end here though. He offers an alternative solution based on free-market environmentalism and property rights that use free-market ideas and common law, not to curtail human innovation and effort as do current policies, but to drive human creativity in a way that is compatible with stewarding the environment and developing its potential.
_The Really Inconvenient Truths_ is without question hard-hitting. A spade is called a spade. While Murray's work will be welcomed by conservatives, I doubt it is gentle enough to gain an audience among followers of Al Gore. In fact, if you love the "Goracle," you'll likely not be able to make it through this book. It's a shame since the book is well researched and informative. But the current state of the debate is such, being as it is one-sided, that an aggressive tone is necessary. There is a very real war of ideologies going on right now in the climate change debate. Sometimes desperate times call for more than diplomatic efforts.
Shows Man made global warming is a hoax January 7, 2010
W. Edwards (Phoenix AZ)
This book proves that the Global warming hoax is all part of a tax and control plan.
Thinly veiled anti-GOP crud October 23, 2009
Automated Message (SF)
0 out of 26 found this review helpful
All you have to do is read the subtitle to this book to know it's just another tree-killing attack on the Republican Party because everybody knows that liberals don't do anything but whine and yield to their GOP counterparts. It's right there in your face blaming global warming on Dick Cheney and pals. Plus, it pays homage to Al Gore in the main title. You've been duped again, Beck Nation!!
P.S.: The subtitle is the part after the colon, if you happen to have an IQ that matches the year-round temperature in Honolulu.
P.P.S.: A colon is a punctuation mark involving one dot floating immediately above the other. I am not talking about the part of your large intestine that has become perforated due to ulcers brought on by reading too much Illuminati garbage by former Christian Coalition Grand Duke Pat Robertson as you "reminisce."
P.P.P.S.: I don't know what "P.P.S." stands for.
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