Dear Ed.
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This is not a letter to second-guess Harold Henderson’s “thinking” or motives in his almost surprising article concerning what he sees as a bogus environmental crisis [“Envi- ronment: The Manufactured Crisis,” September 16]. An article based on a book written by members of the Heartland Institute, admittedly a “market-oriented think tank,” and on another book which refers to the ecological movement as “totalitarian” is difficult to take seriously. The author claims in one of his statistics that “U.S. wooded acreage has increased 20 percent in the last 20 years (Journal of Forestry, November 1990)” as if rows of similar trees could be anything like a forest. This stuff is not worth second-guessing or refuting. Henderson does write a good “City File” except for occasional (and recent) lapses in the area of ecology.
John Starrs
