Merchants of Despair
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Merchants of Despair

Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Merchants of Despair

Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism

About this book

There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for—indeed, worth liberating. But now we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, a species whose aspirations and appetites are endangering the natural order. This is the core of antihumanism. Merchants of Despair traces the pedigree of this ideology and exposes its deadly consequences in startling and horrifying detail. The book names the chief prophets and promoters of antihumanism over the last two centuries, from Thomas Malthus through Paul Ehrlich and Al Gore. It exposes the worst crimes perpetrated by the antihumanist movement, including eugenics campaigns in the United States and genocidal anti-development and population-control programs around the world.Combining riveting tales from history with powerful policy arguments, Merchants of Despair provides scientific refutations to antihumanism’s major pseudo-scientific claims, including its modern tirades against nuclear power, pesticides, population growth, biotech foods, resource depletion, industrial development, and, most recently, fear-mongering about global warming. Merchants of Despair exposes this dangerous agenda and makes the definitive scientific and moral case against it.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Preface
  4. CHAPTER ONE - Thomas Malthus, the Most Dismal Scientist
  5. CHAPTER TWO - Darwinism’s Moral Inversion
  6. CHAPTER THREE - The Birth of Eugenics
  7. CHAPTER FOUR - Deutschland über Alles
  8. CHAPTER FIVE - Eugenics Comes to America
  9. CHAPTER SIX - The Nazi Holocaust
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN - Eugenics Reborn
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT - In Defense of Malaria
  12. CHAPTER NINE - Scriptures for the Doom Cult
  13. CHAPTER TEN - The Betrayal of the Left
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN - The Anti-Nuclear Crusade
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE - Population Control: Preparing the Holocaust
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Population Control: Implementing the Holocaust
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Better Dead than Fed: Green Police for World Hunger
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Quenching Humanity’s Fire: Global Warming and the Madness of Crowds
  19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN - The Mind Imprisoned or the Soul Unchained
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. NOTES
  22. ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
  23. INDEX
  24. A NOTE ON THE TYPE
  25. Copyright Page