Hard Green Saving The Environment From The Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto

by Huber, Peter W

• ISBN13: 9780465031139
• ISBN10: 0465031137
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-23
• Publisher: BASIC BOOKS

Summary

This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda. Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment. Captured as it has been by the Soft Green oligarchy of scientists, regulators, and lawyers, modern environmentalism does not conserve forests, oceans, lakes, and streams - it hastens their destruction. For all its scientific pretension, Soft Green is not green at all. Its effects are the opposites of green.This book lays out the alternative: a return to Yellowstone and the National Forests, the original environmentalism of Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation movement. Chapter by chapter,Hard Greentakes on the big issues of environmental discourse from scarcity and pollution to efficiency and waste disposal. This is the Hard Green manifesto: Rediscover T.R. Reaffirm the conservationist ethic. Expose the Soft Green fallacy. Reverse the Soft Green agenda. Save the environment from the environmentalists.

Author Biography

Peter Huber is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, where he specializes in issues related to technology, science, and law. His previous books include Hard Green, Liability, and Galileo's Revenge. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Table of Contents

The Rough Rider and the Wonk	xi
Part I What Is and What Will Be
Scarcity: Malthus on a Chip	3	(14)
Externality: Pollution on a Chip	17	(20)
Complexity: Gaia and the Sandpile	37	(20)
Efficiency: The Fat of the Land	57	(20)
Eschatology: From Malthus to Faust	77	(10)
Part II Capitalist Green
The Conservative Commune	87	(14)
Save the Earth	101	(18)
Privatizing Pollution	119	(20)
The Limits to Growth	139	(20)
Ethics in the Green Lifeboat	159	(16)
The Limits of Certitude	175	(20)
A Conservative Environmental Manifesto	195	(10)
Acknowledgments	205	(2)
Notes	207	(4)
Index	211