Embracing Philanthropic Environmentalism: The Grand Responsibility of Stewardship (McFarland & Co., 2019).
In this book I offer a guardedly optimistic interpretation of humanity’s place in nature and our unique caretaker role. I address a broad range of subjects, including urban ecology, green technology, problems with climate change prediction, chemical groundwater contamination, invasive species, and other topics. In the process, my study counters misanthropic environmentalism, an odd philosophy that tends to view humanity as a discrete agent despoiling nature. This book presents a common-sense analysis of environmental science, belief, and philosophy — and debunks eco-apocalyptic thinking in the process. I reveal much compromised science masquerading as authority for the purposes of raising funds and influencing policy; these are the crusades of the environmental elite, which overshadow unambiguously serious problems like environmental racism. Written in an informal style sprinkled with first-person sketches, I have attempted a well-reasoned original work that draws upon both scholarly and media sources.
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