Acid Rains on Liberal Propaganda

About the Book

This book is about war, as waged by the ultra Liberals and the far Left and about the insidious propaganda tidal wave they have launched. This book is about the hype and scare stories on the environment and climate change, issues that are extremely difficult for the average citizen to assess. Everyday we are besieged with thousands of messages. TV is terrible. Magazines are particularly egregious, stuck in the face of every housewife and teenager at every check out station in the country. These offer secrets on everything: looks, stress, sex, health, environment, etc. In addition you are given a one-sided message about each new issue, namely that big government is the answer. And the press usually provides unlimited, un-researched and un-skeptical support. Serving as a shill for such issues is not journalism. It is a corruption of the profession. It is prostitution, a selling out of the values of honest journalism for the adoration of the so-called elite, and the hope of ultimately becoming one of these so-called elite.

About the Author

Gerald Westbrook brings a rather incredible mix of first hand experiences in the fields of energy. This has included refinery projects from Ontario, to British Columbia, to the Northwest Territories, and to the Gulf Coast. It has also included a nuclear power plant and co-generation project in Michigan, and sodium sulfur battery research in California. His experience in water purification, waste water recovery, other environmental areas and the climate change scene has been as broad. Westbrook has survived starting life in a coal fired home plus an odyssey of projects and exposures to coal, coal dust, heavy oil and dangerous chemicals. He was a participant, in perhaps the first attempt at a meeting of minds between environmentalists and industrialists, on The National Coal Policy Project, sponsored by Georgetown University in 1977 to 1979. Westbrook retired from a major petrochemical company in 1994. He and his wife live in Houston where he remains active in consulting, educational services, public policy issues, writing, and a retail venture.