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.

"The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and
prosperity at the end of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st
century is no longer socialism," writes Klaus. "It is, instead, the
ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism."

The publication of Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What is Endangered:
Climate or Freedom? continues the Competitive Enterprise Institute's
history of fighting alarmist climate policies. CEI has long argued that
whatever challenges future climate changes might bring, the worst
possible response is to restrict human freedom and slow economic growth
and innovation.

"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."

To purchase a copy, please go to Amazon.com.

To order copies of Blue Planet in Green Shackles in bulk, please contact our publications department at pubs@cei.org.