The marketing appeal of the synthetic chemical scare far surpasses that of global warming alarmists. Painful, personal experiences pile up. One couple's dreams of a family are ruined by DES, another sees their children's future spoiled by DDT, a third is rendered infertile by declining sperm counts. Al Gore, who wrote the introduction for this book, invokes children three times. Fortunately, Our Stolen Future will not become the next Silent Spring .
Reputable responders trash the book for all manner of scientific and logical flaws.
And after repeated wolf-calling, the public has become more jaded and cynical about predictions of ecological catastrophe. Doug Noonan is a research assistant at FREE and at Gallatin Institute.