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Modestly right, not interestingly wrong
The right way to interpret Shellenberger & Nordhaus |
David Roberts |
13 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Matt Yglesias has a review of Shellenberger & Nordhaus' book in the NYT Sunday Book Review. It contains a good insight and a fairly crucial mistake -- albeit a mistake common to those enter S&N's hall of mirrors for the first time. The insight is twofold. First, that the core and most valuable part of S&N's book is about messaging: "We know from extensive psychological research," they write, "that presenting frightening disaster scenari ... |
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Wise Guys
An excerpt from The War Against the Greens takes a hard look at the Wise Use movement |
David Helvarg |
01 Dec 2004 |
Arts and Minds |
| The War Against the Greens, by David Helvarg, Johnson Books, 384 pgs., 2004 revised edition. In 1988, the Wise Use movement was founded out of fear that George Bush Sr. was going to live up to his campaign pledge to be "the environmental president." This cabal of anti-environmental activists, organized by federally subsidized industries dependent on public lands, ... |
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