“Calm reason and alarmist environmentalism do not co-exist,” writes Dixy Lee Ray, former governor of Washington and co-author with Lou Guzzo of Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal with Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things) (Regnery Gateway, 206 pp., $18.95). Into today’s irrational environmental debate, Governor Ray tries to instill some calm reason in the form of science.
She does not deny there are problems; that man, in building his world, has scarred his surroundings. Her worry is that debate on the issue is controlled not by scientists but by journalists and lay people, who, although genuinely concerned about the earth, tend to believe the most dire environmental scenarios.
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