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Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future
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In this hard-hitting and timely book, Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich challenge those who downplay the reality and importance of global environmental problems with appealing but misleading rhetoric. Such efforts to undermine and misinterpret environmental data, labeled the "brownlash" by the Ehrlichs, prolong an already difficult search for solutions and are deeply
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Paperback, 348 pages
Published
January 1st 1998
by Island Press
(first published 1996)
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This book was a very interesting read. It labeled right-wingers who deny global warming and over-population as the "brown lash" and their denial of science and data is the reason for the title. The book is good overall and provides many good talking points relating to environmental issues and the science that supports each issue. I would recommend to anyone.
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Paul Ralph Ehrlich is an American biologist and educator who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. By training he is an entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies), but he is better known as an ecologist and a demographer, specifically for his warnings about
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