Liberals blamed for environmental catastrophes

The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About — Because They Helped Cause Them by Iain Murray The liberal environmental movement takes for granted that strict government regulation and public ownership is necessary for the preservation of the environment. Yet who, in the end, is responsible for the great environmental catastrophes of the recent past? According to Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the real answer is: environmentalists themselves. "The dogmatic ideologies and restrictive policies pushed on us by the environmental Left have harmed nature more than helped it," argues Murray, "but the environmentalists have never borne the blame." Now, in The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About — Because They Helped Cause Them, Murray reveals just how often and gravely liberal environmentalists have harmed the environment, how they have covered up this fact, and how conservatives can reclaim the environmental issue by stressing free-enterprise, private-property solutions. To make his case, Murray focuses on seven major modern environmental catastrophes that illustrate the failure of the liberal approach. All had tragic consequences for humans or the environment. All could have been avoided or mitigated by alternative approaches based on conservative thinking. Yet, in each case, the liberal approach was not to admit failure -- but to condemn the alternative approach, deny the problem exists, blame it on something else or even to claim it as a victory. The Really Inconvenient Truths reveals: The origins of the modern liberal environmental movement in the campaign to ban DDT -- and how that led to the resurgence of malaria in the poorest countries, with devastatingly fatal consequences How the government-dictated preference for corn-based ethanol and other biofuels is causing massive land overuse, soaring food prices, and increased hunger in the poorest places How a single SUV tank of ethanol-based gasoline burns enough food to feed a starving African for a year How public ownership of waterways causes pollution -- and was the real reason Cleveland's Cuyahoga River "caught fire" in 1969 (a founding myth of environmentalism) How hormones from contraceptive and "morning after" pills are literally being flushed into rivers and causing bizarre sexual malformations in fish -- and why, for once, there has been no outcry from liberals Yellowstone in flames: How liberal-inspired management programs in the Forest Service and the National Parks have led to major wildfires — including a near—catastrophic one in the nation's crown jewel, Yellowstone Park How the Endangered Species Act actually increases the threat of wildlife extinction — while private approaches have helped species recover all over the world Getting the Green: how the environmental movement is funded by industries that reap enormous profits from environmental laws and regulations How overfishing of the oceans results directly from liberal opposition to property rights in the oceans, as embodied in the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) Shut Up, He Explained: how censorship, manufactured outrage, and even phony "science" are being used to cut short the debate over global warming The Lost Sea: how the last attempt to "scientifically manage" an economy, in Soviet Russia, caused the destruction of the Aral Sea — which Al Gore and others now wrongly blame on global warming What history demonstrates about the importance of property rights in protecting the environment In this election year, Republican politicians tell us that conservatives need to adapt and develop an "environmental" policy to compete with liberal Democrats. In truth, no adaptation is needed. As The Really Inconvenient Truths demonstrates, liberal laws and policies that were introduced in the name of saving the environment are hurting it — whereas conservative principles such as freedom and property rights help to preserve and protect the environment whenever they are allowed to work. Our Price: $19.95 You Save: 29% FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics by Neal Boortz and John Linder Three years ago, Neal Boortz and John Linder unveiled a bold, ground-breaking new plan to jump-start the U.S. economy, bring back lost industries and jobs, recapture billions of untaxed dollars hoarded by criminal and offshore businesses, and -- best of all -- to eliminate federal taxes and the IRS altogether. Their book explaining how, The FairTax Book, rocketed to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List, propelling a powerful grassroots tax reform movement that continues spreading like wildfire across our nation. Liberal establishment critics, of course, came out of the woodwork, bent on discrediting the FairTax plan and shamelessly misrepresenting what it was and how it would work. So now Boortz and Linder are back to take on those critics and show why their FairTax plan is solid, sensible, and right for America. FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics answers the misinformed critics of their pioneering proposal and debunks myth after liberal myth about the plan -- yes, it makes economic sense, and no, it won't bankrupt the economy, and no, it won't leave poor people in the lurch. Best of all, FairTax: The Truth offers eye-opening new insights not covered in the original book. It shows why the FairTax plan is simple, brilliant, and workable, and details how it will enable you to keep your money rather than turn it over to a ravenous IRS. Our Price: $12.95 You Save: 13% A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery by E. 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Our Price: $19.95 You Save: 23% The Politics of Freedom: Taking on the Left, the Right, and Threats to our Liberties by David Boaz C7207 As Americans head into the 2008 presidential elections, pundits are coloring everything in "red" vs. "blue." But according to David Boaz, the old labels of left and right don't tell us much any more. What we are witnessing, he says, is little more than a contest of "Big Government Conservatives" vs. "Bigger Government Liberals." Now, in The Politics of Freedom: Taking on the Left, the Right, and Threats to our Liberties, Boaz explains that whether we elect Democrats or Republicans this year, the result will be a larger, more intrusive, and more expensive government. Calling for all freedom-loving Americans to reject both parties and unite under the libertarian banner, he offers fresh and often surprising views on a wide range of topics. Our Price: $18.95 You Save: 17% Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming -- How Scares Are Costing Us the Earth by Christopher Booker and Richard North It didn't start with Al Gore and global warming. From salmonella in eggs to asbestos, from the Millennium Bug to bird flu, and from DDT to passive smoking, the media establishment trumpets our impending doom from a new cause every few weeks! In fact, as Christopher Booker and Richard North prove in Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming -- How Scares Are Costing Us the Earth, these "scare" crazes have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. Scared to Death is the first book ever to rip the cover off the "scare" industry and tell the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades. Our Price: $23.95 You Save: 20% Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain, and Injustice by Maureen Faulkner and Michael A. Smerconish He's a darling of the Left, championed around the world as a "political prisoner" of the "racist" U.S. regime. But there's just one problem: Mumia Abu-Jamal is a murderer. On a cold December in 1981, he shot Philadelphia police officer Danny Faulkner between the eyes, and -- according to the testimony of several witnesses -- spoke openly and proudly about his evil deed. Now, in Murdered By Mumia, Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Philadelphia police office Danny Faulkner, and acclaimed Philadelphia talk show host Michael Smerconish definitively lay out the case for Mumia's guilt, and show why his legion of defenders are either being taken for a ride, or are willfully trying to help this cold-hearted thug get away with murder. Amassing an impressive -- and, indeed, irrefutable -- array of evidence, Faulkner and Smerconish prove that Mumia Abu-Jamal is no political prisoner, but is exactly where he ought to be as he continues to languish Our Price: $19.95 You Save: 20% Feminists Say the Darndest Things by Mike Adams When Mike Adams entered academia over a decade ago, he was an atheist and a liberal Democrat -- which means, of course, that he fit right in with his colleagues. But unlike most of them, Adams was not a shallow, unthinking conformist. Ultimately, he became a conservative -- and a forthright, outspoken one to boot. Predictably enough, ever since Adams saw the light, the professional feminists who swarm our nation's campuses these days have had him in their crosshairs. Their insults, taunts, foul language, intolerance, and public declarations about their sex lives have now trailed him from the campus quad to the courtroom. In Feminists Say the Darndest Things, Adams exposes the outrageous real-life incidents he has been involved in with these feminists, by means of a series of letters he has written to his feminist colleagues. In doing so, he exposes why feminists hate men, unborn children, gun owners, capitalists, Christian fundamentalists, Republicans, and even ordinary women! With his trademark barbed wit, Adams' letters subject campus feminists to the ridicule they so richly deserve. And when his pen pals take the bait, they do a better job of making feminists look silly. Our Price: $19.95 You Save: 20% Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State by Tara Ross and Joseph C. Smith Jr. The most admired man of his age, George Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention and was president when religious freedom was enshrined in the Bill of Rights. 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Dr. Laura here strikes a mortal blow to the fashionable mindset that the Left tirelessly inculcates, as they teach people to evade all responsibility for their lives by claiming victim status. She uses real-life situations from her renowned nationally-syndicated radio show to provide genuine solutions to common problems that affect our relationships and our jobs. Our Price: $17.95 You Save: 28% This email was sent to pmscholl.redemption@blogger.com because this address is signed up to receive Conservative Book Updates from Human Events. To unsubscribe or to update your email delivery preferences, click here. Human Events Book Service One Massachusetts Ave, N.W. Washington, DC 20001