The Green Crusade
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The Green Crusade is a 1998 book by Charles T. Rubin
, a political science professor at Duquesne University
, criticizing the environmentalist movement.
Publishers Weekly wrote:
Charles T. Rubin
Charles T. Rubin is a political science professor at Duquesne University. He is an advocate of "civic environmentalism" a plan that changes environmental issues from ones dealt with by federal government command structures to ones dealt with on a local level...
, a political science professor at Duquesne University
Duquesne University
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of...
, criticizing the environmentalist movement.
Publishers Weekly wrote:
- He finds that an environmental utopia as envisioned by such leading writers in the field as Paul EhrlichPaul EhrlichPaul Ehrlich was a German scientist in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy, and Nobel laureate. He is noted for curing syphilis and for his research in autoimmunity, calling it "horror autotoxicus"...
( The Population BombThe Population BombThe Population Bomb was a best-selling book written by Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich , in 1968. It warned of the mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth...
), Barry CommonerBarry CommonerBarry Commoner is an American biologist, college professor, and eco-socialist. He ran for president of the United States in the 1980 US presidential election on the Citizens Party ticket. He was also editor of Science Illustrated magazine.-Biography:Commoner was born in Brooklyn...
( The Closing Circle ) and others would lead to a totalitarian state. He charges that CarsonRachel CarsonRachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement....
deliberately misrepresented some of her findings and that the Club of RomeClub of RomeThe Club of Rome is a global think tank that deals with a variety of international political issues. Founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy, the CoR describes itself as "a group of world citizens, sharing a common concern for the future of humanity." It consists of current and...
's The Limits to Growth was part of a PR campaign. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0847688178/