text: Joseph Bast is president of The Heartland Institute and coauthor of Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1996). Jay Lehr, Ph.D., is science director of The Heartland Institute and editor of McGraw-Hill's Standard Handbook of Environmental Science, Health, and Technology. James Taylor is managing editor of Environment & Climate News, a national monthly publication produced by The Heartland Institute.