| View Larger Image | Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things) | Hardcoverby Dixy Lee Ray (Author), Lou Guzzo (Author)
| List Price: | $19.95 | |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Regnery Publishing, Inc. | | Edition: | 1st Edition.st Edition | | Page Count: | 272 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 15, 1990 | | Sales Rank: | 659,359th |
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Product Description
Ray and Guzzo take on the scare-mongers who preach environmental catastrophe by pointing out facts about such contentious issues as acid rain, the greenhouse effect, radiation, pesticides, and nuclear waste--facts that are far less alarming than the propagandists would have us believe. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 11 reviews)
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TRASHING THE PLANET by John A. Shanahan (Denver, CO USA)  5 Stars
July 12, 2009
There is a middle way between wanton destruction of the environment and self-serving greed on the one side and abandoning technological advances that benefit mankind in the name of going back to primeval nature without mankind's beneficial inventions on the other side.
This middle way is described in Dixy Lee Ray's book, TRASHING THE PLANET. Her book should be read by all high school and university students, and by people in government at all levels.
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Shining the light of reason on a hot topic.... by Cloud Downey (Crystal Lake, IL - USA) 5 Stars
April 09, 2009
There have been, and are, many qualified voices to speak about the insignificance of man's effect, or ability to effect, climate change. Dixie Lee Ray was one of them.
Dixie Lee Ray was one of the first significant voices to shine the light of reality on the junk science being manufactured to push political goals. I recommend her 1990 book: 'Trashing The Planet'. As might be expected, she was the subject of frequent attacks in an attempt to discredit her claims. Who was Dixie Lee Ray?
She was the 17th Governor of Washington State, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (under Nixon), a Ph.D marine biologist and professor at the University of Washington, chief scientist aboard the Stanford research ship Te Vega on the International Indian Ocean Expedition, director of the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Assistant Secretary of State for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs. During her lifetime she had received many awards and honors, including the Clapp Award in Marine Biology (1958), the Frances K. Hutchinson Medal for Service in Conservation (1973), the United Nations Peace Medal (1973), and the Francis Boyer Science Award (1974). She was awarded 20 honorary degrees from colleges and universities around the country.
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"Trash" is the operative word by Willilam E. Williams (Dameron, MD USA)  1 Stars
February 09, 2008
A completely outdated, thoroughly debunked screed against the environmental movement. Contains a number of hilarious errors, including overestimating the amount of chlorine released by volcanoes by a factor of about 5,000!
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Required Reading! by Trainer Lady (Whittier, CA United States) 5 Stars
May 26, 2006
I keep this book handy to educate clueless people who just listen to the "news" each night.
It is loaded with earth facts, and dispells the popular myths of today, that man has the power to change the climate.
We don't.
We are arrogant for thinking we can. The environmmental movement if a home for Socialists, just follow the money.
But this book and prepare to be angered by how manipulated you have been. You are taxed to death for the "environmental good" that has no meaning. What dopes we all are.
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no science in the book, propaganda of large corporations by Erich Burgdorff Friesen (Saint Louis, MO) 1 Stars
July 21, 2005
This books has no science behind it and is basically a screed against environmental action of any sort.
I would reccommend as a great book The Future of Life by Dr. Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Research Professor at Harvard University, who has been recognized by many as an authority on the Environment, and has put together an excellent, very readable book, without hype, but clear lucid Science, thoughtfully presented.
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