A FEAST

There is a famine of truly good books in the subject area of this newsletter, books like the Isaac' Coercive Utopians ($16.45, AIM, Box 28390, Wash. DC 20005). But this month it's a feast: Free Market Energy, ed. by S. Fred Singer, $8.95, Universe Books, 381 Park Ave S., New York, NY 10016; Is It True What They Say About Dixy? -- A Biography of Dixy Lee Ray by L.R. Guzzo, $8, Guzzo Assts., Box 211, Issaquah, WA 98027; Media Mischief and Misdeeds by Reed Irvine, $9.95, AIM (see Isaacs); Dome by J. Lyon, C$4.95, Avon Books of Canada, 2061 McCowan Rd., Scarborough, Ont., Canada M1S 3Y6; The Soviet Control Structure:

Capabilities for Wartime Survival by H.F. and W.F. Scott, $7.95, Natl. Strategy Info. Center, 111 E.58^th St., New York, NY 10022; On Freedom, ed. J.A. Howard, $12.95, Devin-Adair, 6 N. Water St., Greenwich, CT 06830.

Here at last is the true story on world population, food, sea resources, global forests, species loss, supply of crop land, soil erosion, water resources, climate, minerals, oil and petroleum supplies, nuclear power, solar energy, coal, environmental quality, nutrition, and health -- 580 pages of readeable reference: a feast, and fingerlickin' good.

This is the answer not just to Global 2000, but to Silent Spring, The Population Bomb, Secret Fallout, and the rest of the putrid pseudo-scientific and anti-scientific broth.

Make no mistake: this is not the "contrary opinion" or "another interpretation," unless chemistry is another interpretation of alchemy, and astronomy a contrary opinion to astrology. These are the stubborn facts that are being roughshod run over in the Michael Novak quotation below: the scientists of this group have no policy, ideology or bogeymen to prop up with their findings.

They are not infallible, of course: some perceived facts may turn out to be errors; some genuine facts may have been misinterpreted; some important factors may have been missed. But such cases are unlikely to be numerous or essential, for the book is written by scientists who, except for the principle of honest science itself, have no point to make: unlike Carson, Ehrlich or Sternglass, they observe and conclude; they do not select to prop up.

And that, in a nutshell, is why this work is not another opinion, but comes from another world.

The book will have little help from the media, the book trade, librarians, teachers or professors, most of whom follow the Globaloney 2000 fashion. But please insist that there are at least as many copies of it in school, city, and college libraries as of Global 2000. There is still hope that the roughshod riders will stumble and the stubborn facts will remain.