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A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism, by Gregg Easterbrook (Viking, 713 pp., $22.95)

‘PLEASE attack me, Fred. Please attack me.” Liberal journalist Gregg Easterbrook made this plaintive entreaty to Fred Smith, president of the free-market environmentalist Competitive Enterprise Institute after the Earth Day videotaping of the television program Think Tank, which I produce. Why did he want to be attacked? Because Mr. Easterbrook’s new book, A Moment on the Earth, reveals that the prospects for the imminent demise of Planet Earth have been greatly exaggerated by doomsaying environmentalists. In liberal circles, this is a definite no-no.

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A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism, by Gregg Easterbrook (Viking, 713 pp., $22.95)

‘PLEASE attack me, Fred. Please attack me.” Liberal journalist Gregg Easterbrook made this plaintive entreaty to Fred Smith, president of the free-market environmentalist Competitive Enterprise Institute after the Earth Day videotaping of the television program Think Tank, which I produce. Why did he want to be attacked? Because Mr. Easterbrook’s new book, A Moment on the Earth, reveals that the prospects for the imminent demise of Planet Earth have been greatly exaggerated by doomsaying environmentalists. In liberal circles, this is a definite no-no.