Risks can be measured and ranked. Pollution problems occur where rights are not defined and enforced. Ownership leads to better stewardship. Some environmental groups profit from false alarms. Don't react out of fear.
Every recommendation meets the common-sense test of addressing a real problem in an efficient way.
Regarding air pollution , the authors advocate tracing air pollution to its sources and then holding its producers responsible for the damage they cause. They also advocate using mobile automobile exhaust testing to find and penalize the owners of cars that pollute, and giving factory owners and managers greater flexibility in determining how best to reduce their emissions. They specifically oppose carbon taxes, stricter auto emission standards, and bans or moratoria on incineration. She could not have known that her book, and similar works by authors soon to follow, would send the environmental movement down the road to chemopho bia, panicky predictions of the end of the world, and one embarrassing false alarm after another. Eco-Sanity means applying reason, sound science, and a respect for the rights of others to environmental issues.