| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.2

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Book Review

Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy. Edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close. Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute, 2005. 467 pp. Index, notes, references. Paper $22.95.
For those who still feel the exhilaration of the 1970s, when environmentalism became a creed and new federal legislation its liturgy, this book might seem the work of the devil. But this isn't a malicious devil, merely devilish—teasing, insightful, provocative, and occasionally even fun. The essays chosen by this book's two editors, scholars at the libertarian-leaning Independent Institute, will sometimes make you angry. But they will also make you take a fresh look at some of the environmental dogma that has come to be taken as gospel.	1
A sampling: Environmental catastrophists warn of a warming planet, overpopulation, a sixth mass extinction, too few pollinating insects, etc. They cry "emergency" and tell us to "do as we say," according to one essay. "The real danger now ... is not that we stand on the verge of destroying nature, but that, stampeded by environmental terrors on every hand, we are plunging over the cliff into totalitarianism" (p. 58).	. . .

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