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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | If one listens to the latest pronouncements from a number of prominent environmentalists, things seem very dire indeed. Poisonous apples, genetically engineered milk, rising global temperatures, and decreasing rainforest acreage are favorite causes. And all too often the media uncritically carries the environmentalists tainted water. Fortunately, there is another side to the story. The second edition of Dennis Averys 1995 seminal work, Saving the Planet Through Pesticides and Plastics shows that cancer risks in the industrialized nations are decreasing; that the worlds temperature rises and falls naturally; that governments, not agribusinesses, have been encouraging people to cut down rain forests; that the industrial nations pollute less than other countries; and that the widespread use of organic farming threatens the worlds wildlife. Avery shows that high yield farming techniques can both feed the earths burgeoning population that will reach 8 billion in the next century while preserving wildlands and wildlife. Thoroughly updated and re-written with new information and data, Averys controversial book shows how agricultural technology can save the planet for both people and wildlife. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Dennis Avery | | Paperback: | 475 pages | | Publisher: | Hudson Institute | | Publication Date: | 2000-08 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1558130691 | | Package Length: | 9.1 inches | | Package Width: | 6.0 inches | | Package Height: | 1.2 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 11 reviews |
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1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 REPULSIVE! Feb 03, 2012
By Kyle
To put it nicely I would respectively say that this book is a disgrace to humanity, and pure proof of how corrupt big corporations like MONSANTO can be. Yeah saving the planet with Poisson and unatural synthentic chemicals and plastic. This is an absolute joke, if not, an outright insult. "i have a great idea lets provide the entire planet with nutrient deficient agriculture and come up with a bogus story, and actually try to convince people that ingesting poisonous unnatural food is good, then we can laugh at them as they spend there money funding our lives and helping our best friends at the pharmaceutical company's.". Disgusting!
10 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Big Business Propaganda Apr 26, 2010
By nirvana
"yoga mom"
Through the years I have learned that in order to evaluate the validity of any studies one should look at where the financing comes from. As I read through this book it was apparent to me that the book was probably funded by companies that benefit from this type of publicity. To say that chemical fertilizers do not have an impact on the environment is grossly irresponsible. Anyone who has made a concerted effort in gardening with both methods understands the importance of organic farming. There is more solid research coming out everyday about soil structure and the way it nourishes plants, but it is not funded by big business and does not get the same type of public exposure. When I did research on the Hudson Institute, I found they are supported by Cargill, Conagra,
Eli Lilly, DuPont, Dow-Elanco, Ciba-Geigy,Sandoz, Monsanto and Procter and Gamble. All the supporters of the Hudson Institute are chemical companies that benefit from this type of propaganda. Unfortunately people living in areas where they cannot conduct their own chemical versus organic trials themselves will be gullible enough to believe this book. Anyone has the ability to write a book whether it be supported by facts or not. The key is for the reader to dig deeper and find the motivations of the author.
5 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Good for a laugh Mar 18, 2008
By Perennial Power
Avery tries to pass his chemical company advocacy off as science. If you are familiar with real science, you might just want to read this for the laughs. If you are looking for actual information, don't read this--it will only confuse you.
21 of 38 found the following review helpful:
Finally! Ignorance has a manual! Aug 16, 2006
By T. Washko
"Naturemoms.com"
This book is testimony to the ignorance of many men. This book is written by a man who profits from plastics and pesticides. It cannot be trusted in the least. All of the data goes against common sense. This is one of those books that will have a place in museums in future years, showing future generations how and why our earth is in the state of chaos it will surely be in thanks to garbage like this.
11 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 I Fear For The Environment May 21, 2008
By Peter Wrenshall
"True North"
The latest edition of Dennis Avery's book, "Saving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic," was published in 2000, but given the green mania that is presently sweeping the Western world, it is still a timely and important work. As the author admits, the idea that pesticides and plastic will literally save the planet is just an attention-getting exaggeration, but he neatly pulls together the evidence from nearly all reputable researchers and official bodies in the fields of agronomy, soil science and ecology that pesticides, when properly used, present no significant risk to the environment or human health. Avery effectively makes the case for industrial fertilizers as a vital input to modern agriculture. He also shows how the growing practice of mass indoor feeding of livestock is both humane and enviromentally beneficial. This should be required reading for animal-rights activists and their urban sympathizers, though I doubt that nothing short of a religious conversion could ever change their minds.
One of the most important parts of the book is Avery's critique of organic farming. At one time, organic farming could be dismissed as a relatively harmless fad that serviced a boutique North American market. Now, eight years after this book's publication, organically-grown food is becoming a mainstream component of consumer tastes. The most serious failing of organic farming is its invariably mediocre crop yields. Avery (and other agricultural professionals) have calculated that in order to feed by organic and other traditional farming the projected 9 billion people populating the world in the mid-21st century, a land area equal to South America and Europe will have to be cleared off just to grow crops. You can kiss the Amazon rainforest and the North American temperate forests goodbye. The organic food movement, for all its endless declarations of environmental sensitivity and "sustainable living", is apparently incapable of grasping the irony. Organic farming is manifestly unsustainable in the real sense of the term, but as its alleged "sustainability" hardens into popular dogma all over the developed world, I fear for the environment and the world's wilderness areas.
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