Washington, D.C., April 24, 2008—In the new book The Really Inconvenient Truths, Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Iain Murray brings to light an especially inconvenient future: environmental activists are priming our world for a massive recession that will cause serious poverty and hardship while ruining the healthy environment we all want.
Environmental campaigners like Al Gore have long embraced an alarmist strategy that calls for constantly hectoring the public with dramatic predictions of disaster and decline. But as Murray points out in his new book, it’s actually the activists’ green solutions themselves that are causing massive food shortages, poverty, and death.
“Since I started working on environmental regulation five years ago, I have come to the conclusion that the liberal environmental movement is grounded in the idea that freedom is detrimental to the environment,” writes Murray. “My experience—as a government regulator, as a student, and as a policy expert—shows me that the exact opposite is the case. The dogmatic ideologies and restrictive policies pushed on us by the environmental Left have harmed nature more than helped it, but the environmentalists have never borne the blame.”
The Really Inconvenient Truths illustrates how liberal policies have run amuck. Unveiling the alarmist lies and hypocrisies of Al Gore’s current global warming war, Murray crafts the tell-all exposé that could help end green hysteria and avoid the economic and ecological disasters that have already begun.
The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them is available from Regnery Publishing via Amazon.com and in bookstores nationwide.
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