True State of the Planet

In the 25 years since the first Earth Day in 1970, the environmental movement has spawned a new generation of scientists asking vital questions about the true state and fate of the planet. But, surprisingly, some of their answers -- and even the questions themselves -- contradict the movement's deepest beliefs. Why are reserves of oil, precious metals, and other natural resources more plentiful than ever before? Why has the population growth of the twentieth century brought rising standards of living for nearly all? In The True State of the Planet ten premier scholars shatter the myths of overpopulation, food, global warming, and pesticides, while redirecting environmentalists' concerns to the far more urgent problems of fisheries, fresh water, and third-world pollution -- and the political causes behind them.

Author: Ronald Bailey
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 05/01/1995
Pages: 472
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.02h x 7.01w x 1.28d
ISBN: 9780028740102

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/1995 pg. 1459

About the Author
Ronald Bailey is producer of the national weekly public television series Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg and author of Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse.