A review of Alan Caruba's new book Right Answers
Eco-Lunacy
"Why, then do environmentalists target agriculture and ranching, so necessary to feed a huge worldwide population? Why have the Greens succeeded in banning many of the pesticides that protect crops against the many insects that attack them or herbicides that protect crops against weeds that can destroy them? Why would Greens want DDT banned when there is no proof it poses a health threat and indeed could protect the millions who die every year from malaria for the lack of it? Why is the use of nuclear power for the generation of electricity opposed by the Greens? Why is the construction of much-needed new refineries opposed? Why is the extraction of oil from a tiny section of Alaska opposed? The answer to these questions is that both the environmental and the animal rights movements are essentially opposed to the existence of the human population of Earth. Whatever may contribute to diminishing that population is encouraged. Whatever may contribute to ending famine or the diseases that kill people is discouraged."
"Indeed the story of the environmental movement is about the steady degradation of the American economy and other nations around the world. It is an attack on capitalism designed to thwart production of beneficial chemicals and pharmaceuticals, transportation, and every other element of the economy."
"ALF and ELF are terrorists, no less than al Qaeda or any other organization that uses violence. In 2003, the groups claimed responsibility for 75 actions, striking against fur farms, logging operations, forest Service facilities, slaughterhouses, and other targets throughout northwestern states. With few arrests, they are becoming more and more emboldened."
"Viewed from where we are today, fuel cells and a hydrogen fueling infrastructure are a chicken and egg problem. We cannot have large numbers of fuel cell vehicles without adequate fuel available to support them, but we will not be able to create the required infrastructure unless there are significant numbers of fuel cell vehicles on the roadways. At the moment fuel cells are actually energy losers since it costs more to free the hydrogen than is earned by running hydrogen through fuel cells. I have often thought that this hydrogen economy seems intuitively flawed; using energy to make hydrogen to then be used as an energy source. Intuitively, it feels like the Escher painting with the water flowing uphill."
"If you add up all the mercury released from coal combustion and compare it to the global sources, the current analytical and statistical techniques and technologies probably will not be able to detect any reduction of the global mercury pool in the environment."
"Other than the idiotic notion of wind powered electricity which would require covering every square mile of the US with giant windmills to generate only a small percentage of what coal-operated utilities currently produce, Greens have never found any source of energy they really like. Some groups are actively trying to remove dams used to produce hydroelectricity and what is cleaner than water power?"
"The greatest waste of energy is to fail to use those resources within our own national borders. This is a deliberate effort to deny Americans access to their own energy, and it is what environmentalism and Democrats are all about."
Immigration
No one understands the immigration problem better or more objectively than Caruba. While being a strong supporter of our Latino population, he accurately criticizes the Bush Administration for echoing so many of the UN-generated globalist policies which ignore the unrecognized threat of our 1,700 mile open border to allow a significant build-up of Moslem terrorists in our midst.
"There are a lot of reasons advanced to explain why the Bush administration will do nothing to stop the flow of illegals across our southern border, the vast bulk of whom are Mexicans, but the one I had not heard until I received the email was that Mexico would collapse without the money sent back by the Mexicans, legal and illegal, among us. When you look at the economic data, it is the one explanation that begins to make sense."
Education
"There was a time when local school boards were in charge of local schools. Those days are long gone. Today the teacher's unions control all aspects of education in America and they dominate the Department of Education. They are considered a keystone of the Democratic Party and acknowledged by all as extremely liberal. As such, they have worked hard to deconstruct the former system of education that produced well educated students up to the years of the 1950s and replaced it with a system that now produces children deliberately rendered ignorant of the basic skills, of history, of civics, of geography, et cetera. Add to this, the massive infusion of lies about the earth's environment throughout the entire curriculum."
"Would it be that we could 'tweak' the entire education system in America and make it work again. The reality, however, is that the thing is broken. It doesn't work. Year after year, children pass through it from kindergarten to twelfth grade, too frequently emerging into the world full of the leftist and environmental nonsense of no value to anyone but the puppet masters who have crafted programs designed to make them docile, easily manipulated little citizens of the world."
Understanding Islam
We are all besieged by editorial after editorial trying to explain the problems in the Arab world. After you read "Can Islam Reform Itself," you will quickly understand the problem, and need to read little more.
"Those candidates who have berated President Bush for having lied us into the war in Iraq miss the essential reason for our liberation of the nation. We are projecting our power to threaten any nation that harbors the jihadists. It is a matter of national survival."
"The notion that millions of Muslims are bent on killing us for being infidels is beyond our imagination. The fact that this is preached in thousands of mosques is ever more bizarre and frightening."
"A society that thrives on conspiracy theories is indifferent to our instinctive wish to resolve conflict."
"If we look at the source of Arab wealth, we find nothing that the Arabs created for themselves."
"As this new century begins to take shape, we confront an enemy for whom death not only holds no fear, but is embraced."
"Last year nearly two-thirds of global foreign direct investment was in East Asia, but only three percent in the Middle East. The contrast between the economic model of the Far East in which nations like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan lifted themselves up from the ashes of World War II stands in stark contrast to the abject failure of the Middle East."
"The combined GDP of all 22 nations of the Arab Middle East, totaling $530 billion, is less than the gross domestic product of Spain alone.
You're going to love this book. You have my word on it.
Right Answers is available on Amazon.com.
Eco-Lunacy
"Why, then do environmentalists target agriculture and ranching, so necessary to feed a huge worldwide population? Why have the Greens succeeded in banning many of the pesticides that protect crops against the many insects that attack them or herbicides that protect crops against weeds that can destroy them? Why would Greens want DDT banned when there is no proof it poses a health threat and indeed could protect the millions who die every year from malaria for the lack of it? Why is the use of nuclear power for the generation of electricity opposed by the Greens? Why is the construction of much-needed new refineries opposed? Why is the extraction of oil from a tiny section of Alaska opposed? The answer to these questions is that both the environmental and the animal rights movements are essentially opposed to the existence of the human population of Earth. Whatever may contribute to diminishing that population is encouraged. Whatever may contribute to ending famine or the diseases that kill people is discouraged."
"Indeed the story of the environmental movement is about the steady degradation of the American economy and other nations around the world. It is an attack on capitalism designed to thwart production of beneficial chemicals and pharmaceuticals, transportation, and every other element of the economy."
"ALF and ELF are terrorists, no less than al Qaeda or any other organization that uses violence. In 2003, the groups claimed responsibility for 75 actions, striking against fur farms, logging operations, forest Service facilities, slaughterhouses, and other targets throughout northwestern states. With few arrests, they are becoming more and more emboldened."
"Viewed from where we are today, fuel cells and a hydrogen fueling infrastructure are a chicken and egg problem. We cannot have large numbers of fuel cell vehicles without adequate fuel available to support them, but we will not be able to create the required infrastructure unless there are significant numbers of fuel cell vehicles on the roadways. At the moment fuel cells are actually energy losers since it costs more to free the hydrogen than is earned by running hydrogen through fuel cells. I have often thought that this hydrogen economy seems intuitively flawed; using energy to make hydrogen to then be used as an energy source. Intuitively, it feels like the Escher painting with the water flowing uphill."
"If you add up all the mercury released from coal combustion and compare it to the global sources, the current analytical and statistical techniques and technologies probably will not be able to detect any reduction of the global mercury pool in the environment."
"Other than the idiotic notion of wind powered electricity which would require covering every square mile of the US with giant windmills to generate only a small percentage of what coal-operated utilities currently produce, Greens have never found any source of energy they really like. Some groups are actively trying to remove dams used to produce hydroelectricity and what is cleaner than water power?"
"The greatest waste of energy is to fail to use those resources within our own national borders. This is a deliberate effort to deny Americans access to their own energy, and it is what environmentalism and Democrats are all about."
Immigration
No one understands the immigration problem better or more objectively than Caruba. While being a strong supporter of our Latino population, he accurately criticizes the Bush Administration for echoing so many of the UN-generated globalist policies which ignore the unrecognized threat of our 1,700 mile open border to allow a significant build-up of Moslem terrorists in our midst.
"There are a lot of reasons advanced to explain why the Bush administration will do nothing to stop the flow of illegals across our southern border, the vast bulk of whom are Mexicans, but the one I had not heard until I received the email was that Mexico would collapse without the money sent back by the Mexicans, legal and illegal, among us. When you look at the economic data, it is the one explanation that begins to make sense."
Education
"There was a time when local school boards were in charge of local schools. Those days are long gone. Today the teacher's unions control all aspects of education in America and they dominate the Department of Education. They are considered a keystone of the Democratic Party and acknowledged by all as extremely liberal. As such, they have worked hard to deconstruct the former system of education that produced well educated students up to the years of the 1950s and replaced it with a system that now produces children deliberately rendered ignorant of the basic skills, of history, of civics, of geography, et cetera. Add to this, the massive infusion of lies about the earth's environment throughout the entire curriculum."
"Would it be that we could 'tweak' the entire education system in America and make it work again. The reality, however, is that the thing is broken. It doesn't work. Year after year, children pass through it from kindergarten to twelfth grade, too frequently emerging into the world full of the leftist and environmental nonsense of no value to anyone but the puppet masters who have crafted programs designed to make them docile, easily manipulated little citizens of the world."
Understanding Islam
We are all besieged by editorial after editorial trying to explain the problems in the Arab world. After you read "Can Islam Reform Itself," you will quickly understand the problem, and need to read little more.
"Those candidates who have berated President Bush for having lied us into the war in Iraq miss the essential reason for our liberation of the nation. We are projecting our power to threaten any nation that harbors the jihadists. It is a matter of national survival."
"The notion that millions of Muslims are bent on killing us for being infidels is beyond our imagination. The fact that this is preached in thousands of mosques is ever more bizarre and frightening."
"A society that thrives on conspiracy theories is indifferent to our instinctive wish to resolve conflict."
"If we look at the source of Arab wealth, we find nothing that the Arabs created for themselves."
"As this new century begins to take shape, we confront an enemy for whom death not only holds no fear, but is embraced."
"Last year nearly two-thirds of global foreign direct investment was in East Asia, but only three percent in the Middle East. The contrast between the economic model of the Far East in which nations like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan lifted themselves up from the ashes of World War II stands in stark contrast to the abject failure of the Middle East."
"The combined GDP of all 22 nations of the Arab Middle East, totaling $530 billion, is less than the gross domestic product of Spain alone.
You're going to love this book. You have my word on it.
Right Answers is available on Amazon.com.