Veteran journalist Todd Wilkinson exposes a disquieting, undeclared war that is shaping the future of our clean air and water, and the mosaic of biological richness on Earth. It's a war involving the quest for scientific truth, how decisions affecting our environment are made in corporate boardrooms, and what the implications of those deals are for generations of humans well into the next millenium. Entrenched political interests, unabashedly beholden to industry lobbyists, are waging an all-out war to weaken key ...
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Veteran journalist Todd Wilkinson exposes a disquieting, undeclared war that is shaping the future of our clean air and water, and the mosaic of biological richness on Earth. It's a war involving the quest for scientific truth, how decisions affecting our environment are made in corporate boardrooms, and what the implications of those deals are for generations of humans well into the next millenium. Entrenched political interests, unabashedly beholden to industry lobbyists, are waging an all-out war to weaken key environmental laws, gut environmental regulatory agencies, and arrange sweetheart deals with special-interest constituents to ensure private industry makes a profit at the public's expense. Their war on science is a well-planned campaign of ignorance that is being foisted on the American public. The soldiers opposing them in this war are scientists -- combat scientists, to be exact -- who have put their careers and livelihoods on the line. Anyone whose research doesn't support the politicians' goals is subject to intimidation, harassment, transfer, or expulsion. Careers are ruined; even lives are ruined. Yet were it not for these brave environmental scientists, cast from the mold of Rachel Carson, Americans would be breathing dirtier air, drinking contaminated water, eating dangerous food, dying at younger ages, getting by on a poorer quality of life, being exposed to dangerous nuclear power plants, and hiking around clear-cuts and open-pit mines where there once were pristine forests and sparkling waters.
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