Through the years, I have read countless books on the environment. Everything from animal populations to global warming and I can't help but wonder if we are really learning anything at all. For every book that shares one view point, there is another that talks about the opposite.

For every story about the dangers of global warming, there is another that says it doesn't exist. The glaciers are melting and one said says its the beginning of the end and the other one says it just part of Mother Nature.

We are fed so much information and misinformation from books, media. Television and film that it can be difficult to know what's the truth. Who is right? Who is wrong? Is anybody? Can we trust environmental organizations that make their money by scaring people into donating or the corporations that make their money by making people believe nothing is wrong.

I can't help but think of all those claims that coal was going to run out and that we'd be completely stripped of natural resources was a little over exaggerated. Then again, all those claims that smoking wasn't unhealthy by tobacco companies sure seemed full of crap. All books about the environment are biased by the people who write them.

A scientist that spends all his daylight hours starting at dolphins is going to be attached and decry the abuses of tuna fishing. The tuna fishermen who pay their bills with the countless tuna and occasional dolphin could care less about few cans of dolphin and tuna mix.