Dixie Lee Ray exposes of the truth behind the frightening headlines of ecological disaster, illustrating how scientific honesty and our constitutional liberties based on property rights are being endangered by environmental extremists, scare-mongering journalists, and rapacious lawyers. She tells what actually happened at the Earth Summit, provides a close look at the environmentalism of Al Gore, and will help you make your own informed decisions on air pollution, global warming, endangered species, overpopulation, and other contentious environmental issues.

Trashing the Planet is the one book you need to get a commonsense grasp on the contentious issues of environmentalism, where science and politics overlap and well-meaning idealism turns to counterproductive ecoterrorism. Dixy Lee Ray, a marine biologist and former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, calls for environmentalists to regain a sense of perspective and not let their ardor carry them into the realm of “noble lies.” Dr. Ray exposes how little the public knows about the environment, how piddling are man’s influences upon it–volcanoes shoot more pollutants into the atmosphere than do all of man’s industrial activities–and how complex are the interactions of natural phenomena. Reminding us that “a well-tended garden is better than a neglected woodlot,” Trashing the Planet is a breath of fresh air in the current debate dominated by rhetorical extremism.