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Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense? | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dixy Lee Ray, Lou Guzzo
Publisher: Perennial
Category: Book
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 397221
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0060975989
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7
EAN: 9780060975982
ASIN: 0060975989
Publication Date: April 1994
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The author of Trashing the Planet and media commentator Guzzo offer a straightforward analysis that helps readers understand the scientific and political realities of environmental issues and make their own informed decisions about global warming, pollution, endangered species, and other environmental issues.
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 Will the truth please stand up June 9, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is an old book and much of it sounds like Bill O'Reilly does enviromentalism. Is it right, I don't know. It doesn't match with current thought but it quotes lots of scientific evidence in support of its position.
Read it and decide for yourself. For what its worth, I didn't like it's hectoring tone.
 Good Subtitle February 11, 2007
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
Whatever happened to common sense is exactly what I wondered while reading this collection of shotgun blasts. The most telling thing about the book is that Rush Limbaugh thinks it's great. If you trust ol' Rush's scientific judgement, this is the one for you.
Dr. Ray had been a scientist at one time and it's too bad she gave it up. A former teaching zoologist, she nonetheless feels qualified to write about atmospheric mixing, stratospheric photochemistry, and the laws governing land use. It's sad when a scientist stoops to namecalling. Here's what she has to say about "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, the environmental writer: "...an emotional, lyrical, and grossly unscientific and inaccurate book...." "...Rachael Carson's hysterics...."
If you're trying to sort out what's true in scientific issues from what isn't, and don't care about personal feuds, look elsewhere.
 Common Sense July 3, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Dr. Ray combined with an excellent writer, Lou Guzzo, to produce a book which brings back the notion of environmental common sense. This book is insightful and full of credible sources to support their positions. Well done!
Thank you Miss Ray March 19, 2004
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Dixy Lee Ray wrote Environmental Overkill as an antidote to the hysteria that was (and still is) being pushed by certain environmental groups and the media. She filled the book with facts and with reason. Sadly Ms. Ray did not live long enough to see how the scares she attacked in the book all crumbled and were quickly forgotten.
Changed my Life November 24, 2003
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
I had this book as a required text in college about 10 years ago. At the time I was young and unfortunatly very much convinced that the government had solutions to our problems. This book made me realize how much I had been duped by the socialist propaganda of mainstream media. Don't get me wrong, I did not become an instant "right winger". In fact, it made me conclude that I did not know much and needed to start from scratch and throw out all my old assumptions. I decided to subscribe to The New Republic(left), The conservative Chronical(right) and Reason (Libertarian). After a year of reading these publications from cover to cover, I realized that the Libertarian philosphy actually held the answers our society desperatly needs to actually succeed in resolving issues like environmental neglect or abuse. My point is, it was this book that made me realize I had basically been brainwashed my whole life through the network news. SO it really holds a special place in my heart.
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