Best environmental policy books according to redditors

I can understand that if I went to the global warming alarmists' subreddit /r/environment and tried to submit an article from James Delingpole, the alarmists would point out that he is a "denier" and that he calls alarmists "watermelons".

What I am doing here is the exact same thing. A global warming alarmist has come to /r/climateskeptics and submitted an article. I am pointing out that Tamino is an alarmist and calls skeptics "deniers".

>rejectionists

Did you get tired of using the word "Denier"?

>"watermelons"

'British author James Delingpole tells the shocking story of how an unholy mix of junk science, green hype, corporate greed and political opportunism led to the biggest - and most expensive - outbreak of mass hysteria in history.

In Watermelons, Delingpole explains the Climategate scandal, the cast of characters involved, their motives and methods. He delves into the background of the organizations and individuals who have sought to push global warming to the top of the political agenda, showing that beneath their cloak of green lurks a heart of red.

Watermelons shows how the scientific method has been sacrificed on the altar of climate alarmism. Delingpole mocks the green movement's pathetic record of apocalyptic predictions, from the "population bomb" to global cooling, which failed to materialize. He reveals the fundamental misanthropy of green ideology, "rooted in hatred of the human species, hell bent on destroying almost everything man has achieved".

Delingpole gives a refreshing voice to widespread public skepticism over global warming, emphasising that the "crisis" has been engineered by people seeking to control our lives by imposing new taxes and regulations. "Your taxes will be raised, your liberties curtailed and your money squandered to deal with this 'crisis'", he writes.

At its very roots, argues Delingpole, climate change is an ideological battle, not a scientific one. Green on the outside, red on the inside, the liberty-loathing, humanity-hating "watermelons" of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the world. They want to rule it.

Delingpole is the bestselling British writer who helped expose the Climategate scandal in his Daily Telegraph blog. He also writes a column for The Spectator. His other books include 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy (Regnery, 2010) and Welcome to Obamaland (Regnery, 2009).'

http://www.amazon.com/Watermelons-Green-Movements-True-Colors/dp/0983347409

First off, I don't see how that is helpful considering industrial output and per capita consumption are already considered far too high to be sustainable. In fact, since at least the '70's many environmental economists have been calling for planned economic degrowth in the face of unsustainable utilization rates of not just fossil fuels, but other natural resources as well.

Second of all, I think there's a strong argument to be made that high-tech renewable energy is not up to the task of supplying us the the kind of energy we're used to, nor will it ever be. Yet that very likely contingency isn't even being considered in public discourse.

I still agree with the central message of the report, though. Cutting emissions is the best path to prosperity. I just don't think that prosperity and growth have to go hand in hand. The rather standard (and silly) assumption that economic growth is somehow independent of energy needs to be discarded. It is not tenable. And it implies, wrongly, that energy related emissions can be reduced without consequences for growth.

Personally, I like to know/research both sides of an argument.

Review of FoK

How stats can be misleading

The other side of the environment issue

Green on the outside, red on the inside

I will not be surprised when dude comes back and says "climate gate was debunked" which it wasn't, but all these watermelons say it was.

Hmmm, I'm not entirely sure this is what you are looking for but... While taking an environmental policy course at university we were assigned Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century (9th edition) and it is by far one of my favorite books that I came across during my college days. Each chapter examines a critical natural resource issue within the US with an emphasis on public policy.

I recommend "Open for Business: Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)" -- MIT Press

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262526026

If you would like to study the history, reason, and tactics Conservatives use to oppose environmental regulation.

re, your handle. James Delingpole and others argue a majority of climate alarmists are "watermelons". "green on the outside, but red on the inside". In a word, deceptive.

Is your handle a reference to this?

Because if it is, then why should any normal person take anything you write seriously?

We don't like deception.

Here’s Robert Danno’s book- https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Unexpected-Bureaucrats-Washington-Redskins-ebook/dp/B00A2HKE2U

Watermelons! http://www.amazon.com/Watermelons-Green-Movements-True-Colors/dp/0983347409/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383248522&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=watermollons