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Blue Planet in Green Shackles

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is proud to announce a provocative new book on environmental policy, Blue Planet in Green Shackles by Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic.President Klaus makes the case that policies being proposed to address global warming are not justified by current science and are, in fact, a dangerous threat to freedom and prosperity around the world.


Klaus argues that the environmental movement has transformed itself into an ideology that seeks to restrict human activities at any cost, while pursuing an impossible utopian dream of a perfectly "natural" world. The supposed threat of human civilization against a fragile Earth has become an article of faith, especially in the realm of global warming activism

Today, the global warming debate raging in both the United States and Europe has become extremely contentious. On both sides of the Atlantic, the debate has metastasized into cultural warfare against economic liberty," writes CEI President Fred L. Smith, Jr. in the book's foreword. "For that reason, pro-freedom voices are needed to reframe the debate to show how a free people can better address the challenges facing Western civilization. To that end, we are proud to publish Blue Planet in Green Shackles...ツ



Opinions Changing on Energy
July 7, 2008 Cooler Heads Digest

According to UPI, the latest nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that half of the respondents now support drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, up from 42 percent in February, 2008. Changing attitudes toward energy were most demonstrated in results showing that the proportion saying it is more important to increase energy conservation and regulation has declined by 10 points, from 55 percent to 45 percent. By contrast, nearly half (47 percent) of Americans now rate energy exploration as the more important priority, up from 35 percent in February. The findings came from a poll conducted June 18-29, 2008 among 2,004 adults.