The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist: With Reflections on Government, Industry, Scientists, the Media, Education, Economic Growth, the Public

by Gordon K. Durnil

Book Overview

" Durnil's attack on chlorine is] one of the single boldest environmental policy ideas of the 1990's.... The message is that if someone as conventional and as conservative as Mr. Durnil can latch on to one of the great social transformations of the American century, then so can every other Republican in the country." --New York Times Book Review "This is a serious, thoughtful book. If they would read it, the phoney 'conservatives' now performing in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025332873X
• ISBN13: 9780253328731
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Conservative Capitalism is Maturing!

As true conservatives start realizing that both parties are evil and both parties have been corrupt in both selling out to Wall Street and in mandating "party line" voting, the tide is turning in favor of common sense and what I have been calling "reality-based" policy and budgeting. This author deserves very high marks, and I am disappointed that the book has not attracted any reviews at all. Published in 2001, this author was years ahead of the pack, and along with Governor Mitch Daniels, himself rather special as a former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), I am finding more and more reasons to look to the heartland for common sense. See also: Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink Toxics A to Z: A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health Blue Frontier: Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It Election 2008: Lipstick on the Pig (Substance of Governance; Legitimate Grievances; Candidates on the Issues; Balanced Budget 101; Call to Arms: Fund We Not Them; Annotated Bibliography) The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution