The Little Green Book of Eco-Fascism: The Left?s Plan to Frighten Your Kids, Drive Up Energy Costs, and Hike Your Taxes! Hardcover – November 18, 2013

This book may be enjoyed by people who agree with the title, or have an open mind. It is very politically incorrect regarding the ecology movement and global warming believers. I found it entertaining in general, and informative in places, and concerning in some places.The book is arranged in alphabetical order with entries on selected topics dealing with ecology.Page 33 has an article on William Connoller. "Green party activist who "turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement." "Between 2003 and 2009, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique WIkipedia articles, caused another 500 articles he disapproved of the disappear, had more than 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him blocked from making further contributions, almost erased Wikipedia entries for the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warming Period, dissed skeptical scientists like Fred SInger, and RIchard Lindzen, and bigged up the work of alarmist s like Michael Mann......."The author discusses the work of Mr, Thomas Lovejoy, who addresses biodiversity. Mr. Lovejoy has authored some rather extreme thoughts on how fact species are dying out on the earth. He has made a very successful career by overstating the rate of die off of species on earth.Low frequency noise (including infrasound at less than 20 hertz, which is below the limit of human hearing) from wind turbines or aero generators is mentioned as an issue which needs to be better addressed.Mr. Karl Popper, the philosopher promoted the hypothesis of "falsifiable". The book states on page 162: "A scientific theory is only useful if it contains the key to its own destruction, Popper argued. That is, for a scientific proposition to be of any real value, it must be "falsifiable" - capable of being proved wrong through experiment and observation." This topic is a big problem between the man made global warming community, and the those that are skeptics. It seems as though any event that occurs is seized upon by the man made global warming community as proof that man was causing the changes in the earth's climate. There is no way to "falsifiable" the claim. Thus, the skeptic community looks with a jaundiced eye on the claim that man is the cause of global warming or climate change on earth.Under Renewables 2 he says: "To supply the USA's 300 million inhabitants with energy using renewables rather than fossil fuel would require, as zoologist Matt Ridley points out in his book, The Rational Optimist: Solar panels the size of Spain, or Wind farms the size of Kazakhstan, or Woodland the size of India and Pakistan, or Hydroelectric dams with catchments one third larger than all the continents put together." Which makes the point that sunlight and wind are both very diffuse and low power sources.Under Sea Level Rises he addresses the fact that the sea level changes based on tide gauge data is generally agreed to be about 1.5 millimeters per year. This is significantly different that estimates of one meter by the year 2100 or other higher estimates.Under Think Globally, Act Locally, he states that Mr. Rene Dubos, who came out with statement this back in the 1970s has a different position today. "The author states the Mr. Dubos now believes: "There is nothing wrong with man adapting the world to his changing needs, argued Dubos, provided he does so in a spirit of "nobleness oblige" - mindful of his role as nature's guardian. The greenies never forgave him."The short section that disturbed me is on The Nature Conservatory. TNR controls more than one hundred million acres of land which were valued at $6 billion in 2008. The book states that there are trillions of dollars of natural resources that cannot be used for anyone's benefit except with TNR permission, if they choose to give permission. "Here, according to investigative journalist Elizabeth Nickerson, is how it works: "A TNC member or staff identifies a desirable piece of property. TNC purchases that property, often at a discount because it is a land preservation charity, and the owner of the property receives a tax write down from the appraised value of he land. TNC then strips the land of development rights, that is, the right to cover the land with industrial waste, trailers, tract homes, strip mall, and so on. It then sells the land on to a private owner at a discount. The new owner can build a house, cabin, stables, septic system, dock, etc., but (generally) can't develop he land as anything but an estate....The new owner [often board member or member of TNC] then donates the difference in the price of the land, if developable, between its maximum and the price he paid to TNC, receiving a tax write-down of the original amount. Everybody wins, except the taxpayer." And, as with most green schemes, the wealthy green elite green elite get to enjoy the land - and you don't." This system sounds like it took a bunch of high priced green tax lawyers and others a while to figure out and impose on the citizens of the US. I wonder if any congress types cooperated by passing some special bill or bills to make this all work?Ted Turner is stated to be the biggest private landowner in the US, and as an environmental activist, has said: ""A total world population of 250 - 300 million people, a 95 per cent decline from present levels, would be ideal," he told an interviewer from Audubon magazine in 1996."Under Wikipwedia is information about how a collection of people have taken control of all of the Wikipedia entries in this area. The hard detective work was done by Lawrence Solomon in the National Post to tie down the issues.The entry on the Wildlands Project is the most disturbing to me. he states that the Wildlands Project Map of America shows that a large percentage of the land in the US is controlled by the environmental types: "By 2010, that figure had risen to 700 million acres. In other words, one third of the U. S. land base of 2.3 billion acres is now under the permanent control of environmentalist brownshirts." I find this very disturbing as this change is having a very negative impact on many rural areas and communities in this country. The people living on the land are being messed with by the environmental types who have much more money than the people on the land. This really needs some attention by the people in this country to country to counter the environmental movement.

I follow James Delingpole's blog articles using a newreader, first when he wrote for the Telegraph and now with Beitbart. I don't agree with some of his far-right views nor even all of his statements about climate.But I agree enough to get immense enjoyment from his pin-pricking the super-sized egos of eminences such as Al Gore, Rajendra Pachuri, and George Soros. I am up to "Victimhood" in The Little Green Book (LGB), sadly nearing the end. But since the book is on my Kindle (a real bargain that was) I will read it again next week.James rightly says that the problem with climate science is that it climate alarmism is not science -- it's politics masquerading as science. That I wholly agree with based on study of Earth science for an M.S. which I completed after I retired from over 40 years as a development economist for projects financed by the multinational development banks and the United Nations.James rightly puts his finger on these international agencies as exploiters of climate "non-science". He tells us in his LGB about the thousands of projects promoted by the UN in support of climate alarmism. He doesn't know the half of it. The tax dollars of citizens of developed countries are being squandered by their own bi-lateral development agencies and multinational bank of which their governments are members.James has managed to do a great job of using a few salient facts to bolster his case. But he would have done even better with some input from insiders or fringe participants in these scams. I find that it is nearly impossible to find work on development projects anymore without having to coordinate with people promoting climate pseudo-science.James tells us why climate science has become pseudo-science. I won't spoil it for you. But the reason is almost the same as the reason that Freudian psychology is pseudo-science. Here again an extra sentence or so would have helped Delingpole's case.Ditto, regarding Thomas Kuhn's view of scientific revolutions. What James has to say is correct as far as it goes. But an extra sentence would have doubled the strength of his argument. Something like, "Scientific theories don't die merely because they are falsified. They die when their professors who are their proponents retire or die and a new generation realizes rejects theories that do not explain nature."But this is just nit-picking. James has an honours degree in English, which means he has been trained to read in way that extracts hidden meanings in text. You will be amazed when you read his (correct) interpretations of leading proponents of the environmental movement and how they intend to diminish democratic forms of government in favor of some form of autocracy.I was one of the "Useful Innocents" that James describes, originally conned by Racel Carson way back in the 1960's when I read her "Silent Spring". I was an ideal innocent because I had grown up during WWII when so much effort was directed to winning the war that almost nobody was concerned with the evil impact of the war effort on our air and water. I was conned because by age 14 I had already become appalled by the deterioration of the environment.But even here, Delingpole is spot on. Poor people cannot afford to spare the environment. Forty years working in more than a dozen developing countries have convinced me that James is correct. Socialism has failed here too. Earth needs the environmental protection possible only through the wealth created by modern industry under capitalism.I wish only that James had written an entry on "Diminishing returns" to demonstrate that rational environmentalism has succeeded in reducing pollution to the point where further aggressive measures threatens the economies of developed nations.I was most impressed by Delingpole's attack on the absurd assumptions of climate cost-benefit analysis of Lord Stern, a type of economic analysis I taught long ago to graduate students long before Lord Stern joined the staff of the LSE. Had he turned in work of a similar standard he might have got the only failing grade in the class. In addition to the reasons Delingpole gives, Lord Stern and his team failed to include substantial benefits of CO2 enrichment and the warming we have enjoyed since 1980..I recommend this little book for anyone who appreciates writing by a man who uses language like a scalpel rather than a sword.Pay close attention to the bit near the end where James describes the movement to sequester enormous tracts of American land to bar access to the public by rich philanthropists. James provides the basis for re-scripting the movie Soylent Green whereby the common people will be contained in cities, industrial civilization will have failed, agriculture will have been squeezed out and the main food will be algae cakes. Re-scripted to show that none of the collapse of civilization is necessary since mankind has always succeeded in adapting to the challenges of Nature.Pay close attention to the quotations of leaders of the aristocracy of wealth who fantasize about reducing the global population by a few billion all the while preserving the status and privileges of their own kind.My only criticism of the book is that James is preaching to the choir and specifically to the right-wing of the choir. I urge those of you who read this review who are members of the center of the political spectrum -- pragmatists like me little concerned with ideology -- read this book. If you are offended by items in the book, scan them for facts and logic and ignore the ranting, as I do..James Delingpole is an outstanding polymath well worth reading.

Very---Very--- Funny., Exposing the weakness in the machinery...(probably, most likely scenario, tends to be, generally) I was hoping for a little more on the numbers but as this was purposefully humor driven as was the purchase, I quickly forgave. I enjoyed the sharp tooth witticisms that constructed a generalized view of how badly environmentalism has run a-muck...Delingpole directs a cattle prod at a winging bunch that has been so indoctrinated with themselves and their love of -Eco- driven lifestyles that he exposes them for the corruption that smothers their enchanted forest.

Delingpole can be serious and hilarious at the same time. Whenever I spot anything he has written, be it an op-ed piece, essay, or book, I buy it. I have become a big fan because he is just so darn entertaining while educating. While reading this book, the entertainment factor never faltered. I gave this book to a college sophomore recently, in an attempt to save him from the loony propaganda of eco-fascists (aka "watermelons").

Having read the ungodly tedious IPCC reports, many of the scientific papers themselves, many of the Climategate emails, almost all of the FOIA requests for raw data, and staying abreast of the discussions by those directly involved in the whole debate (which is NOT over), I found this book to be fun.You can pick it up and turn to any page, and get enlightened.I loved seeing so many little snippets of the nonsense spewed by the climate alarmists.Having worked in scientific research for many years, it's refreshing to see both sides of the discussion. It's also good to see that there are those that are demanding to see all the data.

And what a plan it is! Pure evil genius and the hoards are lapping it up. To the rescue come our spoddy walking talking text-book saviours like Delingpole who thankfully read a heck of a lot and have retentive memories. Luckily for us Delingpole delivers what must have been brain-numbing tedium to research down into a handy A-Z guide with lashings of humour. By the end I was properly up to speed on this whole Eco-thing and had done a major U-ey on ever voting Green again.

Because it is trueEverybody should read it and stop brainwashing our children with this hot airNow I wait for the deluge of complains "pun intended"

Can be heavy going, with a leaning towards very technical arguments. Worth persevering with. Great to hear the other side of this issue which is kept hidden by politicians and media. Needs to be heard.

Enjoyed this book, lots of good information to argue your case. Light hearted but with some serious points to be made.

Tells the truth . A really good read .