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No Turning Back is the story of how the environmental movement displaced a conservation movement’s century of success with a crisis strategy to change not only government policy but also American culture.
Kaufman finds the movement’s conception in the revolt of European and English romantics against both the rational mind of science and the Industrial Revolution. He traces the sparks of that movement to America, where it was nourished by Henry David Thoreau, still the writer most widely quoted by environmentalists.
While Thoreau declared that "in Wilderness is the preservation of the world," this book demonstrates the exact opposite: in civilization is preservation of wilderness.
Kaufman depicts an environmental movement crippled by its own fantasies and outlines a plan for building on the strengths of Western technology and culture to save the planet. To suggest that human beings can survive and thrive by rejecting precisely what makes them unique—namely, reason, planning, and inventiveness—is a recipe for disaster, Kaufman writes.
By debunking well-known environmental experts, No Turning Back generates much debate.
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This withering indictment of the environmental establishment by an award-winning science writer and environmentalist charges that it ignores the basic principles of science, economics, and common sense.
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Wallace Kaufman has worked at the center of environmentalism. Now he has brought back a true report on the core beliefs of the environmental movement. You will be shocked. Julian Simon, University of MarylandWallace Kaufman is an environmentalist who thinks for himself. It remains to be seen whether the other environmentalists will ever forgive him for. John Shelton Reed, Director of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- PublisherIuniverse Inc
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0595000991
- ISBN 13 9780595000999
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages228
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