Trashing the Planet

There have been, and are, many qualified voices to speak about the insignificance of man's effect, or ability to effect, climate change. Dixie Lee Ray was one of them. Dixie Lee Ray was one of the first significant voices to shine the light of reality on the junk science being manufactured to push political goals. I recommend her 1990 book: 'Trashing The Planet'. As might be expected, she was the subject of frequent attacks in an attempt to discredit her claims. Who was Dixie Lee Ray? She was the 17th Governor of Washington State, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (under Nixon), a Ph.D marine biologist and professor at the University of Washington, chief scientist aboard the Stanford research ship Te Vega on the International Indian Ocean Expedition, director of the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Assistant Secretary of State for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs. During her lifetime she had received many awards and honors, including the Clapp Award in Marine Biology (1958), the Frances K. Hutchinson Medal for Service in Conservation (1973), the United Nations Peace Medal (1973), and the Francis Boyer Science Award (1974). She was awarded 20 honorary degrees from colleges and universities around the country.

A good number of environmentatlists lie big and lie often. If more effort was made understanding the dynamics of our environment, and less effort was made in fabricating hyperbole, the world would truly be a better place. This book details a number of the "big lies" that have been and still are being told about the environment. Science should not be agenda driven, nor should public institutions cave to pseudoscience presented as fact.

I first came across this book in 1994 when I was a liberal leaning college student concerned with the environment. I am now a conservative college graduate concerned with the environment, and this book had much to do with my transformation. Dixy Lee Ray is a breath of fresh air speaking on a subject many of us are ill-informed on. If you are concerned with the environment, you will find much in this book that interests you (as long as you can handle truth). Miss Ray debunks much of the dogma the enviro-nazis shove down the publics throat. She takes on the issues of global warming, ozone depletion, nuclear medicine, acid rain and others. Using scientific methods (something the leftist leaning environmental zealots ignore because they fear the outcome of true scientific discovery) she intelligently and unemotionally discusses how water is naturally acidic; the benefits of x-rays and other advances in radiation therapy; the benefits of pesticides in our ability to grow more food using less labor and land. Throughout her book Ray uses the statistics and predictions of the environmental movement's leaders against them to show how out of touch with reality and normal society they are. A Stanford University Biologist, Paul Ehrlich is quoted as predicting global famine in 1985 and a shrinking of the US population from 250 million to 22.5 million by 1999. Here is another quote, "Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace: 'I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.'" The list goes on and on. The best part of the book is the final chapter, in which Ray presents a sound and logical formula for having both a clean environment and a technologically advanced society. This book should be read by all high school seniors so they can understand the truth about the environment rather than the dogma they are spoon feed in public schools and the liberal media.

I have read Trashing the Planet by Dr. Dixie Lee Ray several times. This book should be required reading for introductory classes on the environment in both high school and college - however, that will never happen. The leftist environmental movement does not want anyone to read this book - it is concise, well researched, thoroughly footnoted, and, I feel, gives an accurate report on the status of humans and their impact on the environment. I recently sent copies of this book to President George W. Bush and Bill O'Reilly of Fox News to help them understand what they are up against.

It's about time someone spoke the truth about what really motivates the environmental movement: money. It has nothing to do with any real danger to plants, animals, the earth, or the human race. The lies Ray exposes are atrocious, and the truth is so poignant that one can't help but be astonished that anyone actually believes we are in any danger. The evidence provided here goes to show how little people mean to the environmental whackos who perpetuate this arrogant, anti-human campaign of scare tactics and other subterfuge. Anyone who is scared of losing this planet can rest assured after reading this book.