3. Paul and Anne Ehrlich, The Betrayal of Science and Reason (How Environmental Anti-Science Threatens Our Future) (Island Press, 1996). 334 pp. $24.95. ISBN 1-55963-483-9.
Although environmental science has grown tremendously in knowledge and skill, governments and the public have largely ignored environmentalism's growing consensus that the biosphere is being dangerously overtaxed. In what the Ehrlichs call "the brownlash," efforts have instead been made to minimize the gravity of environmental problems. In this book the authors list and critique some of the reigning brownlash "fables," including Julian Simon's idea that we can feed a growing human population for the next seven billion years. The Ehrlichs call for a national consensus to back environmental policies that will rein in humanity's uncontrolled "global experiment' with the biosphere.
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