Global warming a hoax? Endangered species and wetland protection mere ploys to promote a socialist agenda? From Ronald Reagan to Rush Limbaugh, from members of Congress to members of the media elite, from the American Petroleum Institute to the Cato Institute, prize-winning, nationally syndicated columnist Ed Flattau takes on the most outspoken critics of mainstream environmentalism. Using his quarter century experience, Flattau shows how they have twisted the facts to sell a faulty vision shaped by ideology, self-aggrandizement, and, on occasion, avarice.

Tracking the Charlatans: An Environmental Columnist's Refutational Handbook for the Propaganda Wars

Engineering & Transportation

Flattau, Edward

Engineering

Global Horizons Pr

Green Morality, renowned environmental columnist's Edward Flattau's fourth book, is a thorough and timely exploration of mankind's moral obligation to create an environmentally sustainable global society. Along the way, he confronts moral hypocrisy, failed environmental movements and policies, globally disastrous scenarios, and reckless endangerment of the world's species. The exploration of destructive and immoral environmental behavior includes coverage of numerous often little publicized actions that have adversely affected humanity and lower life forms. To avoid ultimate wholesale, permanent environmental destruction, Flattau advocates a major realignment of our value system and economic infrastructure, all in the name of creating an environmentally, economically sustainable society. Crossing political and cultural boundaries, Flattau portrays environmentalism as a universal moral imperative that every person has a duty to uphold, not only for the salvation of the modern society, but for the entire planet. Flattau presents an analysis of environmentalism's current situation and its history throughout the twentieth century uncovering the devastation committed by individuals, corporations and governments to the world's species and fellow humans. In the process, he demonstrates how these destructive actions conflict with the very values that the offending parties espouse. Flattau delivers starkly eminent solutions to avert environmental destruction that require a re-alignment of modern society's value system and economic structure, transcending historical, political or institutional obligations.

Green Morality

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

The Way Things Are Publications

<p>In his fifth book, the nation's longest running national environmental columnist and Washingtonian Award recipient, Edward Flattau, shines the spotlight on the GOP's desertion from its environmental origins. This polemic and scathing editorial unmasks a decades-long regression away from sensible conservative environmentalism to a new platform of vilifications, mistruths and corporate greed that currently pervades the party. Flattau unveils the party's idealogical paradoxes and the path that led to the current state of obstructionism and smear jobs. While relentless in his critical exploration of the GOP's journey to environmental failure, Flattau presents solutions that can turn the party around and produce a new culture of cooperation that need not betray conservative ideals.</p>

From Green to Mean

Politics & Government

Peering Through The Bushes: A Commentary By Nationally Syndicated Environmental Columnist Edward Flattau

Peering Through the Bushes is a running commentary on George W. Bush’s relationship to environmental issues. Rather than render a detailed documentation of the president’s performance, the book conveys a broad impressionistic picture of the causative factors, current impacts, and future implications associated with Bush’s controversial environmental policies. The author is the nation’s senior nationally syndicated environmental columnist and has been following Bush’s environmental policy-making closely enough over the years to feel comfortable making subjective judgments about the president’s character and motivation on those matters. Not surprisingly, many of Bush’s environmental positions mirror those of his father’s. But the son strays quite a bit further from the mainstream than Bush Senior ever did. Junior is much more enamored of conservative ideology than his father, and is seemingly even less convinced of the imminence and gravity of environmental threats. You can thus understand why George W. Bush’s takeover of the presidency has caused environmentalists to greet the 21st Century with trepidation. They have watched with dismay as their issues have been undermined by a discredited conservative ideological approach they thought had been put to rest when Ronald Reagan left office 15 years earlier. Suddenly, states’ rights, corporate volunteerism, and marketplace incentives were in vogue. Stringent environmental regulation and primacy of federal laws over local ones were out of favor except on the rarest of occasions. Bush gravitated towards an anachronistic unilateral stance on any number of international environmental matters, despite the United States inevitably having to operate in an ever more environmentally interdependent world. His "new" environmental approach had catapulted the nation back in time to the Reagan years, with their embarrassing and sometimes alarming ventures into isolationism. This was not an auspicious way to inaugurate a century in which humanity can be expected to either restore an ecologically stressed planet to good health or doom earth to an irreversible downward environmental spiral.  The specious rhetoric heard so often during Reagan’s reign was once again emanating from the White House. Preferential treatment in environmental controversies was granted to business interests in the guise of returning some sense of "balance" with natural resources protection. Rationalizations were concocted for opening up previously protected public conservation areas to industrial activity. Brimming with animus at his predecessor’s ideological stance, sexual dalliances, and defeat of his father, George W. Bush was obsessed with rescinding as many of Clinton’s environmental initiatives as possible. Even after his inauguration, Bush displayed no sign of being able to broaden his environmental perspective beyond preconceived narrowly drawn ideological nostrums Those solutions might be applicable on occasion, but no more than that. Employing the politically correct methodology often appeared more important to Bush than reaching the correct result in environmental controversies. In the wake of the World Trade Center attack, he exhibited no recognition that reversing environmental degradation was a major component of any long-term solution to terrorism Unless there is some dramatic change, historians are certain to perceive Bush’s handling of environmental issues in public office as a tale of deception, indifference, and regulatory rollbacks. Chapter One contains entries in a diary that this author began when the president took office. As you will see, Bush engaged in his ideological vendetta against existing environmental safeguards from the get-go. Subsequent chapters deal with his motivation, character, tactics and ideology. The final chapter speculates on what the future might hold.

Science & Math

Xlibris, Corp.

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