Ron Arnold
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Ron Arnold has been the Executive Vice-President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise since 1984. He is a former board member of the Sierra Club[1] and is considered the "Father of the Wise Use Movement."[2] He is one of the harshest opponents of environmentalism.
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[edit] Education
Arnold was born in Houston, Texas on August 8, 1937 and studied business administration at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Washington.
[edit] Career
Following his graduation, Arnold worked for Boeing from 1961 as a technical writer until he left in 1971 to found Northwood Studio. In 1974 he began to contribute to Western Conservation Journal, which marks the beginning of his public opposition to environmentalism. Between 1978 and 1981, Arnold was a contributing editor of Logging Management Journal. In 1981 he wrote a biography of James G. Watt, and in 1987 he began publishing a series of books on the environmentalist movement. In 1988 Arnold was one of the catalysts for the founding conference of the Wise Use movement in Reno, Nevada and published its policy wish-list, the 'Wise-Use Agenda'.
His 1979 magazine series, The Environmental Battle was the winner of the American Business Press 1980 Editorial Achievement Award.[3]
[edit] Books by Arnold
- James Watt and the Environmentalists (1981, Regnery Gateway, 282pp)
- The Grand Prairie Years (1987, Dodd Mead)
- Trashing the Economy (1993, Free Enterprise Press, 670pp), with Alan Gottlieb
- Politically Correct Environment (1996, Merril Press, 178pp), with Alan Gottlieb
- Ecoterror (1997, Free Enterprise Press, 324pp)
- Ecology Wars (1998, Free Enterprise Press, 182pp)
- Undue Unfluence (1999, Free Enterprise Press, 344pp)
