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The Green Crusade is a detailed critique of a series of populist writers who are environmentalists, such as Carson, Commoner, Ehrlich, Schumacher, and more recently the proponents of deep ecology. What Rubin says about the frequent lack of scientific backing for many of the claims and predictions made by environmentalists is interesting.
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