Books that question conventional wisdom on the environment

Michael Crichton recommends and briefly discusses Playing God in Yellowstone by Alston Chase (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986), The Culture Cult by Roger Sandall (Westview, 2001), Man in the Natural World by Keith Thomas (Oxford, 1984), The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dörner (Perseus, 1998), in the Saturday, October 29 OpinionJournal.


Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park


Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays


The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World


Logic of Failure

Man and the Natural World: A History of Modern Sensibility (no picture available as of post time.)