The Really Inconvenient Truths, Iain Murray
The Really Inconvenient Truths, Iain Murray
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The Really Inconvenient Truths
Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Dont Want You to Know AboutBecause They Helped Cause Them

Author: Iain Murray

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 19 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, History


Synopsis

Did you know that pollutants and estrogen from contraceptives are causing male fish in America to develop female sex organs? Or that ethanol, the liberals' favorite fuel, is destroying the world's rainforests? We hear about AIDS in Africa, but the numberone killer of children in Africa is malaria, and guess who banned the pesticide that used to have malaria under control? Iain Murray's expos reveals how environmental blowhards actually do more to waste energy, endanger species, and kill people than those they finger, while capitalism, hunting, and oldfashioned property rights have made the planet better. Rather than just myth busting and blame shifting, Murray offers applicable and effective solutions for each catastrophesomething the Left has yet to do.

About Iain Murray

Iain Murray is Vice President for Strategy and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, DC-based think tank that works to promote free markets and limited government. Murray also directs the Center for Economic Freedom at CEI. For the past fifteen years at CEI, Iain has written and lectured extensively on free markets and the environment, labor policy, finance, the EU, and trade. He tweets at @ismurray and is a Contributing Editor at Instapundit.com. Before coming to CEI, Iain was Director of Research at the Statistical Assessment Service. A former civil servant in the United Kingdom, where he helped to privatize the railroad industry, Iain immigrated to the U.S. in 1997 and remains a British citizen. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of London and a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. He is married with two children and lives in Northern Virginia. Iain is a long-suffering fan of the Washington Redskins, Sunderland AFC, and the England cricket team. He likes to brew his own beer and play board and table-top games with friends.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dale on April 03, 2012

I once proudly called myself an environmentalist. Now I am a conservationist and a steward. I believe some wild spaces should be saved. I recycle (A lot!). I coordinate my school's paper recycling program. I own several of those little fluorescent bulbs and I use them every day. I don't spray chemica......more

Goodreads review by Lene on March 17, 2012

Iain Murray's book is a concise presentation of the unintended consequences of environmental policies. He gives seven case studies where policies is actually harming the environment and people's health.[return][return]Public Policy is in the end about perception and the liberal environmental lobby i......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 04, 2017

Really solid overview of the fallacies of the environmental "movement" and how, despite their claims to the opposite, the environmental left in this country (and world, really) are enacting or hope to enact policies that are actually destroying the environment while simultaneously padding a lot of t......more

Goodreads review by Nathaniel on August 31, 2011

I read this book at the same time that I was reading An Inconvenient Truth. I found neither to be especially convincing. The data, arguments, and reasoning displayed in both seem flawed to me. The thing I did like about this book, the thing that I thought made a lot of sense, was his arguments about......more

Goodreads review by Ron on March 24, 2011

This is a must read if you want to know what is really driving the 'green' movement and what you don't know is happening. It includes references to the leading 'green' movement organizations and the lies and deceit behind their agendas. It touches in detail on Al Gore, Malaria (DDT), Ethanol , EcoPag......more