H/T to Global Warming Policy Foundation for this publication. Announcement is here.
Bernie Lewin has written a thorough history explaining a series of environmental scares building up to the current obsession with global warming/climate change. The story is enlightening to people like me who were not paying attention when much of this activity was going down, prior to Copenhagen COP in my case. It also provides a rich description of happenings behind the scenes.
As Lewin explains, it is a particularly modern idea to scare the public with science, and thereby advance a policy agenda. The power of this approach is evident these days, but his book traces it back to more humble origins and describes the process bringing us to the present state of full-blown climate fear. It is a cautionary tale.
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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