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Environmental Gore: A Constructive Response to Earth in the Balance
Lively, controversial discussion of Vice President Gore's approach offers suggestions and real-world solutions in the ecology vs. economy debate.
- GenresScience
270 pages, Hardcover
First published January 25, 1994
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July 12, 2024
A CRITIQUE OF GORE'S BOOK, "EARTH IN THE BALANCE"
At the time this book was published in 1994, editor John A. Baden was chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment. This book was collected in response to (then-Vice President) Al Gore's book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. The Preface notes, "Many of us are impressed that a contemporary American politician can actually write an important book that is taken seriously... we give him credit for that achievement. Yet, we have found his book to be severely flawed on both scientific and political economy grounds." The book contains fourteen essays on Gore's book; Climate Issues; Resource Issues; and a concluding section, "Toward Real Reform."
One essay asserts that "There may be a case for regulating population in the interest of preserving or enhancing local or global environmental assets. Vice President Gore does not make that case, however... There is a strong case to be made that global problems are not receiving adequate attention, and Mr. Gore makes it... (but his) solutions are not convincing..." (Pg. 34-35) Another essay charges that "While Senator, Mr. Gore also failed to vote his environmental conscience on many issues where his interest in reelection evidently dominated." (Pg. 56)
Another essayist suggests that global warming effects can be due to overgrazing and desertification, and have nothing to do with the buildup of greenhouse gases; "there is certainly no guarantee that all (or any) of the warming has been forced by the known buildup of greenhouse gases." (Pg. 114)
Another essayist recalls his testimony before Senator Gore in 1990---where he admitted a modification to one of his earlier published conclusions---but adds that Gore is wrong in claiming that he has "retracted my SCIENTIFIC objections to the catastrophic warming scenario." (Pg. 131) A later essay recommends "host-community benefit packages," where citizens in such a community agree---for "monetary and other benefits"---to host a waste facility. (Pg. 184)
This book contains some thought-provoking responses to Gore's book in particular, and certain environmental statements in general.
At the time this book was published in 1994, editor John A. Baden was chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment. This book was collected in response to (then-Vice President) Al Gore's book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. The Preface notes, "Many of us are impressed that a contemporary American politician can actually write an important book that is taken seriously... we give him credit for that achievement. Yet, we have found his book to be severely flawed on both scientific and political economy grounds." The book contains fourteen essays on Gore's book; Climate Issues; Resource Issues; and a concluding section, "Toward Real Reform."
One essay asserts that "There may be a case for regulating population in the interest of preserving or enhancing local or global environmental assets. Vice President Gore does not make that case, however... There is a strong case to be made that global problems are not receiving adequate attention, and Mr. Gore makes it... (but his) solutions are not convincing..." (Pg. 34-35) Another essay charges that "While Senator, Mr. Gore also failed to vote his environmental conscience on many issues where his interest in reelection evidently dominated." (Pg. 56)
Another essayist suggests that global warming effects can be due to overgrazing and desertification, and have nothing to do with the buildup of greenhouse gases; "there is certainly no guarantee that all (or any) of the warming has been forced by the known buildup of greenhouse gases." (Pg. 114)
Another essayist recalls his testimony before Senator Gore in 1990---where he admitted a modification to one of his earlier published conclusions---but adds that Gore is wrong in claiming that he has "retracted my SCIENTIFIC objections to the catastrophic warming scenario." (Pg. 131) A later essay recommends "host-community benefit packages," where citizens in such a community agree---for "monetary and other benefits"---to host a waste facility. (Pg. 184)
This book contains some thought-provoking responses to Gore's book in particular, and certain environmental statements in general.
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