[Sally II]

Silent Spring! I was going to mention that one, too. But I only had to read one or two chapters in college. It really gets me riled up when people mention that book to confirm their fear for the environment these days. That book is so dated. Wasn't that whole book about DDT or some other very specific pesticide? They should make Ayn Rand required reading --to provide balance. I like what she says about the whole pesticides and environment scares --basically: since the rise in technology, people have never lived longer lives in all recorded history. Facts should speak louder than words, but unfortunately all the lefties aren't paying attention to the real world.

[L,TOWM]

I had a textbook for a class called "Our Global Future-Values For Survival" that quuoted Silent Spring and just about every other whack job enviro nut you could think of. The book was called "Ariadne's Thread". It also quoted heavily from the Club of Rome study, Paul Ehrlich, and many other idiots.

I took the class with my buddy, (an engineering major) as part of our electives. I was majoring in business. The book, and the class, was in three parts:

First, Chicken Little whine fest (we have oil until 2010 folks, and here's the math to prove it);
Second, An attack on capitalism and Western Culture,
Third, An advocacy of Communism (hey you fat Yanks, get poor like the rest of the world).

The lead instructor for the Class, and the book's author was Mary Clark, a biology professor. Some of the things that were stated about economics were hilarious, and my buddy was quite skilled at pointing how flawed a lot of the math was in this thing.

Prof Clark probably wished she could have kicked us out after week 3.