In Walter Williams' latest column (an excellent one, by the way) he refers to John Berlau's book, Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health! Berlau, a Journalism Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, presents an argument with appropriately convincing evidence that modern environmentalism has taken a turn that is not just silly, not just counter-productive, not just hypocritical...but one which is truly endangering human lives.
Here is a FrontPageMagazine interview with Berlau from last spring that will give you more of the alarming story.