Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future.

By Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996. 338 pp., $24.95.

This is one of the most fascinating books in the environmental science and policy arena that has been published in the United States for more than a decade. It is written by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, the internationally distinguished husband and wife team who have co-authored a number of books in the biological sciences, including the widely used reference book Population, Resources, and the Environment. Paul Ehrlich is, at present, Bing Professor of Population Biology at Stanford University, and Anne Ehrlich serves as the Associate Director of the University's Center for …