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Global Warming: why it is the Left’s last best chance to gain a stranglehold on our political system and economy/The astonishing life story of a Muslim girl who survived brutal beatings and forced marriage to become a champion of human rights against Islamic oppression
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism / Infidel
by Christopher Horner / Ayaan Hirsi Ali
For decades, environmentalism has been the Left’s best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It’s for Mother Earth! It’s for the children! It’s for the whales! But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they’ve trumped up haven’t been large enough to give the sinister prize they want most of all: total control of American politics, economic activity, and even individual behavior. With global warming, however, greenhouse gasbags can argue that auto emissions in Ohio threaten people in Paris, and that only global government can tackle such problems. National sovereignty? Democracy? Forget it: global warming has now brought the Left closer to global government, statism, and the eradication of individual rights than it has ever been before.
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Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left’s manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes – and lays out incontrovertible evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science. He explains why, although Al Gore and his cronies among the media elites and UN globalists endlessly bleat that “global warming” is an unprecedented global crisis, they really think of it as a dream come true. It’s the ideal scare campaign for those who are doing all they can to secure strict control over society, business, and the minutest details of individual life. For, as Horner explains, if global warming really were as bad as the Leftist doomsayers insist it is, then no policy imaginable could “solve” it. According to the logic of the greens’ own numbers, no matter how much we sacrifice there would still be more to do. That makes global warming the bottomless well of excuses for the relentless growth of Big Government.
Horner (an attorney and Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute) reveals the full anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-human agenda of today’s environmentalists, dubbing them “green on the outside, red to the core.” He details how they use strong-arm legal tactics – and worse – against those who dare to point out the weakness of their arguments for global warming. Along the way, he explodes ten top global warming myths, carefully examines the evidence to determine how much warming there really is and what is actually causing it. He exposes the lies that the environmental lobby routinely tells to make its case; the ways in which it is trying to impose initiatives such as the Kyoto Accords on an unwilling American public; and much more – including the green lobby’s favorite politicians (an often surprising rogue’s gallery including John Kerry, John McCain, Joe Lieberman and others).
It’s time to stand up to the environmentalist industry and insist: human beings are not the enemy. In breezy, light-hearted and always entertaining fashion, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism gives you the facts you need to do so.
No, the sky is not falling, despite the Green Left’s best efforts:
- Proof: media hype and deceptive Al Gore slide shows notwithstanding, greenhouse gas concentrations demonstrably do not determine temperatures
- The mainstream media’s routinely sloppy, inaccurate reporting about evidence of global warming and other environmental matters
- More proof: The hole in the ozone layer — the 1980s manmade environmental crisis — was caused by the Antarctic atmosphere being too cold
- How environmentalists throughout modern history have instilled fear over one looming “crisis” or another with the aim of increasing government control over things big and small
- Why the environmental alarmists do whatever they can to avoid actual debate
- The environmentalist movement: not a grassroots phenomenon driven by scruffy idealists but an elite-driven movement that lards the coffers of pressure campaigns with wealth — commonly inherited, often corporate, and far too-frequently looted from the taxpayer
- Recent studies that have shown that the environment is actually flourishing – and how the greens have turned even these into evidence of our imminent doom
- “To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem”: the environmentalists’ openly anti-human agenda
- How real pollution problems can be addressed through the technological improvements that the Left is doing all it can to obstruct
- Al Gore’s global warming jihad: how it will lead to massively higher costs and direct or indirect energy rationing – and probably many measures that are even worse
- How much of the budget for environmental pressure groups comes directly from taxpayers -- through grants for public “education” and congressional schemes designed to subsidize the greens’ lawyers
- Green lunacy run amok: how even respectable political figures (and Slick Willie) say that the environmental damage caused by American industry is a greater threat than terrorism
- Why, as with other political crusades that fail in the arena of representative democracy, the greens now see the courts and supranational bodies as their best hopes
- How environmental policies come with a cost, often to the society as a whole, decreasing wealth, and so harming health – dangers the average environmentalist ignores
- How greens worship primitive lifestyles from afar, while those mired in them would kill to escape them
- How, almost without fail, global warming skeptics are charged with being stooges of industry — a charge that neither addresses the skeptic’s criticism or question, nor reflects the fact that most of “industry” now actually supports the alarmists’ agenda
- Ethanol: sobering evidence that it might not be good for the environment – and how the damage to soil from single-crop farming is probably more real than global warming
- How the risks of climate change policy far outweigh the risks that might realistically be expected as climate continues to change
When Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was cruelly murdered in Amsterdam in 2004 by a Muslim enraged at his criticism of Islam, it was a stark reminder of the dangers of challenging a hard-line Islamic worldview – even in Western countries. It also changed the life of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, van Gogh’s collaborator on the film about the institutionalized Islamic oppression of women that had offended his murderer. Van Gogh’s murderer attached a note to the body quoting Koran verses and threatening Hirsi Ali’s life also; she was placed under round-the-clock armed guard in her adopted country, the Netherlands.
But soon she was hounded out of Holland by politically correct Leftist politicians enraged by her straight talk about Islam and honest criticism of the Islamization of the Netherlands. Now, in Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her amazing life story, explaining how a girl raised in a traditional Muslim household in Somalia could become one of the most outspoken critics of Islamist oppression in the world today.
In this profoundly affecting memoir, Ayaan Hirsi Ali vividly recalls her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, and recounts in gripping detail her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, as well as her current life fighting for human rights under armed guard in the United States. With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali recounts the evolution of her beliefs, her ironclad will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done in the name of Islam.
Raised in a strict Muslim family and extended clan, Hirsi Ali details in this book how she survived civil war, genital mutilation according to Islamic custom, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the jihadist group the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries largely ruled by despots. She tells the heart-stopping story of how, in her early twenties, she escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science and fought for the rights of Muslim immigrant women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament – all the while dealing with personal hardship and tragedy. And today in the U.S., even though she is still under constant threat -- demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her family and clan -- she refuses to be silenced.
Hirsi Ali is not a conservative in the conventional Western sense, and in her journey comes to more than a few conclusions with which you’re likely to disagree. Nevertheless, her story is a profoundly conservative one: it’s a testament to the power of the human spirit to overcome tyranny, no matter how firmly entrenched that tyranny may be. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with increasing pressure from Islamic groups, Hirsi Ali’s story is not only timely and significant – it’s a primer for every politician, public figure, and private citizen who wants to speak out about the evils of Islamic oppression of women and others without being cowed by political correctness and fear.
From Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s harrowing and heroic memoir:
- One little-noted practical reason why so many Muslims sincerely but wrongly believe that Islam means peace
- Hands cut off, men flogged and beheaded, women stoned to death: daily life in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s
- “The Quran says on almost every page that Allah is just, but this is not just”: why Ayaan began to question core Islamic beliefs – and how she suffered for doing so
- Surprising ways Ayaan had to adjust from life in Africa and Arabia to life in Europe
- The surprising reasons why fundamentalist Islam is newly resurgent around the world today
- Why Holland’s unstinting respect for Muslim customs and practices was an abject failure for both the Dutch and their Muslim community
- “If you tell a Dutch person it’s racist he will give you whatever you want”: how Muslim immigrants in Holland learned to manipulate political correctness for their own advantage
- “Fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew”: Ayaan’s jaundiced view of the “Islam is peaceful and tolerant” party line that still dominates Western public discourse
- Did the 9/11 attacks stem from true belief in the true Islam? How Ayaan arrived at the answer, amidst a blizzard of Western analyses that focused on the symptoms, not the root causes, of the bin Laden phenomenon
- Ayaan’s efforts to get the Dutch to wake up and stop tolerating the oppression of Muslim women in their midst – which they did, of course, under the banner of multiculturalism
- Ayaan’s clear-sighted assessment of the prospects for – and necessity of – real reform within Islam
- “When are they going to look at Islam?” Ayaan’s trenchant critique of the “experts” whose remedies for the ills of Europe never touched on the real problems created by the massive immigration and non-integration of Muslims
- Why, as a member of the Dutch Parliament, Ayaan advocated a drastic reduction of welfare benefits
- Ayaan’s stinging response to those who charge that she attacks her own culture out of self-hatred, and because she “wants to be white”
“Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of Europe’s most controversial political figures and a target for terrorists. A notably enigmatic personality whose fierce criticisms of Islam have made her a darling of conservatives…” – Boston Globe
“Too potent a social critic to be tolerated any longer [in her home country]…an unflinching advocate of women’s rights and an unflinching critic of Islamic extremism.” – New York Times
“Crammed with harrowing details, Hirsi Ali’s account is a significant contribution to our times.” – Kirkus Reviews
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