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In the selection of books, the country of residence during authorship was inferred from biographical information. 3. , 1976; Whelen and Stare, 1975) at this time had a CTT affiliation. Herman Kahn, with the conservative Hudson Institute, became a key ally of Julian Simon. Also, Elizabeth Whelen, one of few women involved in the counter-movement, became a key skeptic regarding the impacts of industrialenvironmental impacts on human health and is currently the president of the CTT called American Council on Science and Health.
1996; Morris, 2000). CTTs have framed some environmental problems as “non-problems” and they have been influential and effective especially in the realm of climate change (McCright and Dunlap, 2003; McCright and Dunlap, 2000). However, the “context of interaction” in this framing is just as important. The context of interaction regards the character of the public sphere where the speech act rhetorically occurs (see Kriesi, 2004). In other words, the context of interaction is about the nature of the discussion itself.
The first skeptical book was published in 1972 (Maddox) and thus the study reaches from 1972–2005 in terms of English language books. Books were judged as skeptical if they rejected the authenticity of major environmental problems. These books reject one or more of the following examples of environmental concerns, but are not limited to this Science, Nature, and Environmental Skepticism 27 list: the harmful impact of toxic chemicals on human health and the environment; the possibility and plausibility of natural resource scarcity such as energy sources, tropical forests, fertile land, or fresh water; the reality or importance of biodiversity loss; the reality or importance of harmful (especially trace) chemical pollution; the reality and importance of stratospheric ozone depletion; the reality and importance of acid rain deposition; the reality and harm of land conversion via development and sprawl; and the reality and harm of climate change.