1) Have I ever recommended a work of fiction before? Well, here is one: J.P. Hogan's The Multiplex Man (359 pp. hdbd., Bantam Books 1992; $20), a science fiction mystery whose main story I find thrilling, though I am no significant judge for this category of literature. The reason why I highly recommend it is the background of the story: 21st century America with its population brainwashed and dissident, opinion silenced, its EPA police (nicknamed the "green Gestapo"), the points accumulated for good behavior for the right to buy an airline ticket, the absence of syrup jugs from restaurant tables because the government has determined that too much sugar isn't good for the masses, etc. This background is quite unobtrusive, which makes it all the more effective (and gives a little foretaste of the direction in which gaga Gore's handmaiden will go at the EPA.)
2) World Climate Review is a brand-new quarterly and under the editorship of Prof. Patrick Michaels should become an effective weapon against the greenhouse hoax. Write Dept. Environm. Sci., Clark Hall, U. of Va., Charlottesville, VA 22903.
3) "Global warming and other environmental myths," extract from speech by Dixy Lee Ray, Research Reports 10/5/92, Amer. Inst. Econ. Rearch., Gt. Barrington, MA 01230; subscription $59/year. Full speech in "The Media and the Economy," Economic Education Bulletin Nov. 1992; 31 pp., also contains Heidelberg Appeal. Same publisher, subscription $25/year.
4) "Faust Triumphant, "Financial World 12/8/92, pp. 22-23, the story of Dwayne Andreas' manipulations to make ethanol an automobile fuel under either Bush or Clinton.
5) The Reason Environmental Reader is a collection of articles that have appeared in Reason on the environment, $5 from Reason, 3145 S. Sepulveda Blvd/#400, Los Angeles, CA 90034.
6) M. Vivoli "Putting people last," on Endangered Species Act, CEI Report Nov. 1992, subscription $25/year.
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Vol. 20, No. 5
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Volume 20 Issue/No.: Vol. 20, No. 5 Date: January 01, 1993 11:03 AM Title: To the stars
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