Unintended Consequences: The Lie that killed millions and accelerated Climate Change

by George Erickson

COLOR edition - In Unintended …, best-selling author and dedicated environmentalist George Erickson exposes the lie that created our extreme radiation safety standards, the damage those regulations have caused, and his dismay with “greens” who promote 30% efficient bird, bat and human-killing, carbon-dependent windmills (and solar panels with a different set of defects), while refusing to consider proof that super-safe, CO2-free, 90% efficient nuclear power is far kinder to the environment than the harmful alternatives they support. With richly illustrated, provocative text that includes A Deadly Evacuation, Climate Change, Beer and Bananas, When Radiation Can Even Be Good for You, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, Safety and Death-prints, Super-safe reactors, Blowin’ Wind, The Opposition and more, (and with the support of engineers, physicists, science journalists and specialists in nuclear medicine), Unintended … urges closed-minded organizations like the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, etc. to remove their blinders and examine the science that persuaded real environmentalists like Stephen Tindale, James Lovelock and Stewart Brand (who had opposed nuclear power), to support the cleanest, safest, most efficient way to produce the 24/7 electricity we will need as we cut back on carbon to combat Climate/Ocean Change.

194 pages, Paperback

Published March 23, 2019

About the author

George Erickson holds a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Minnesota.

He is a former president of the Minnesota Humanists, a past director of the American Humanist Association, a recent Vice-President of the Minnesota Seaplane Pilots' Assoc. and a former chairman of the Worthington, MN Airport Commission and the Nobles County, MN Art Center. He has served on the New Brighton, MN Environmental Quality Commission. Since 1967 he has made 38 flights through Alaska, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, northern Quebec and Australia.

From the author’s website.

Reviews

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Accurate and intense summary of climate change issues.

Thorough explanations for the layperson with enough details to not only back up his information but interest readers in pursuing these topics further. Web-links and quotes are used on most pages.

The kindle version I used wouldn't allow adjusting the font or page size, so it was slightly annoying to read in fine print. Fortunately I found the material is quite engrossing.

[Andrew Daniels · Rating 1 out of 5]

Poorly written polemic

Chaotic to read, lacks citations, and is a tangle for the reader to try and wade through -- there are much better books on this topic, give this tangled unreadable mess a miss