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Issue 18. Do Environmental Restrictions Violate Basic Economic Freedoms? 362 xiv CONTENTS YES: John Shanahan, from “Environment,” in Stuart M. Butler and Kim R. Holmes, eds. Issues ’96: The Candidate’s Briefi ng Book (Heritage Foundation, 1996) 364 NO: Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, from “Brownlash: The New Environmental Anti-Science,” The Humanist (November/ December 1996) 374 John Shanahan, vice president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution in Arlington, Virginia, argues that many government environmental policies are unreasonable and infringe on basic economic freedoms. He concedes that environmental problems exist but denies that there is any environmental “crisis.” Environmental scientists Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, whose 1974 book The End of Affl uence fi rst outlined the consequences of environmental mismanagement, argue that many objections to environmental protections are self-serving and based on bad or misused science.