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By Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich. 335 pp. Washington, D.C., Island Press, 1996. $24.95. ISBN 1-55963-483-9.

Recently, the debate over some of the biggest environmental issues — global climate change, population growth and depletion of resources, and chemical toxins — has taken on an antiscientific tone. Enjoying new access to the mainstream media and great influence in the Republican Congress, the "brownlash" writers — Gregg Easterbrook, Dixy L. Ray, Fred Singer, and Ronald Bailey — have espoused extreme positions on the imperviousness of the earth and its natural systems to anthropogenic stress. The Ehrlichs use the term "brownlash" to refer to attempts "to minimize the seriousness of environmental problems . . . because they help to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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