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SEPTEMBER 23, 2012 |
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www.ElizabethNickson.com |
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Today's guest:
Elizabeth Nickson |
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ELIZABETH NICKSON |
Elizabeth
Nickson
Author &
Journalist
Forty million Americans driven from their lands; rural
culture crushed; and wildlife, forests, and rangelands
dying-an investigative reporter documents the
destructive impact of the environmental movement in
North America and beyond.
Journalist Elizabeth Nickson was forced to subdivide her
small forest on Salt Spring Island in the Pacific
Northwest. To do so, she needed the Islands Trust to
grant her the “right” to build one more house on her
twenty-eight acres. Her long and expensive struggle with
the radical greens led her to investigate the broader
impact of the environmental movement on ordinary men and
women in North America and around the world. |
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Nickson explores how the environmental movement has
changed the way we interact with nature and documents how it is
hurting communities. She details the ways in which today’s
environmental movement has strayed from scientific integrity on
issues ranging from land management to biodiversity to fish and
water protection, and how environmental radicals have taken over
government agencies on local, state, and federal levels. The
result? A wholesale sequestration of forest, range and water,
more than 40% of North America, impoverishing us all, especially
the most vulnerable. This confiscation of America’s natural
heritage is a major factor contributing to our current economic
decline: until it is acknowledged and addressed, our economy
will not recover. |
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She traces the tens of billions of dollars environmental
nonprofits spend annually to promote the notion that our
essential natural systems are collapsing and finds, in a
brutal example of self-fulfilling prophesy, that their
perverted science is decertifying the heartland. She
visits once-thriving communities turning to ghost towns
because environmental legislation has forced mines,
ranches, and mills to close and forbade critical forest,
range, park, and wilderness maintenance. |
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Eco-Fascists expose the major fallacies of the
environmental movement – from wildlife protection to
zoning to forest fire management – and introduces us to
the individuals who are fighting back. Fast-paced,
highly accessible, and sure to be controversial, it will
change the national conversation about environmental
protection and its impact. |
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For further
information about Elizabeth Nickson visit:
www.ElizabethNickson.com
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Websites and
material mentioned on
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www.elizabethnickson.com |
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http://elizabethnickson.com/wordpress/ |
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