Eco-freaks

Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health! (Hardcover) by John Berlau (Author)

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Tree-huggers may actually be squeezing the life out of the environment.
In a book that is alternately alarming, enlightening, ironic, and entertaining, award-winning journalist John Berlau explores the myriad ways in which shortsighted environmentalism actually endangers trees, wildlife, and people. In chapter after chapter, Berlau debunks myths and libels about:

global warming and climate change
the dangers of pesticides like DDT
trees and pollution
fuel economy and the auto industry
the threat posed by asbestos
the lifesaving role of dams and levees
plans to "rewild" America

Mother Nature is not a gentle person, and Berlau's pointed reporting reveals the very real dangers to people and their environments when Eco-Freaks prevent us from restraining her.

"Berlau makes a powerful case. . . . Thinking environmentalists who read this book will be forced to revisit at least some of their most deeply held beliefs."-Joel Himelfarb, Washington Times

"Berlau says a lot of things that are not generally known that needed to be said."-Bruce N. Ames, recipient, National Medal of Science, 1998

Save the Planet . . . and Ourselves

In Eco-Freaks, award-winning journalist John Berlau provides a much needed and startling expose about how the environmental movement with its radical, shortsighted eco-activists has actually helped amplify the dangers of natural disasters and destroyed the lives and property of millions of Americans.

As Berlau writes, "America . . . is still mighty prosperous, but environmentalism is putting us on the brink of danger as well. As technology after technology that our grandparents put in place is being banned, and new technologies never even come to market, we risk a public-health disaster. Environmentalists have promoted all sorts of doomsday scenarios about population explosions and massive cancer crises from pesticides that have been shown to be false. But now, because we have done away with so many useful products based on those scares, we are in danger of an old-fashion doomsday returning, because we've lost what protected us from the wrath of nature. Indeed, as we will see throughout this book, public health hazards caused by environmental policies are already on the scene."

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Começam as publicações que se contrapõem ao "consenso científico" em torno do aquecimento global e já não era sem tempo. Mas, enquanto não temos um debate real neste campo, boa parte do planeta se solidariza com a idéia/teoria aquecimentista por duas razões, basicamente:

1º) Uma conveniência política com interesses econômicos em responsabilizar os países ricos pelo suposto problema:

O Brasil está fazendo um esforço diplomático juntamente com Índia, China e México para pressionar os países industrializados a reconhecer que historicamente eles poluíram mais do que as nações emergentes.

A articulação está em andamento nesta quarta-feira durante o terceiro dia da conferência que vai definir a versão final da terceira parte do relatório do Painel Intergovernamental de Mudanças Climáticas (IPCC, em inglês) da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU).

Os quatro grandes emergentes querem incluir no texto oficial uma referência atribuindo aos países ricos responsabilidade pelo aquecimento global.

2º) E, obviamente, uma base psico-social que, convenientemente, atribui a outrem, um mal externo, o "grande Satã", todos os problemas da sociedade.

Pobreza de raciocínio.