“Eco-pornography”: The latest book by a Pacific Northwest journalist who has given much aid and comfort to environmentalists throughout his career commits the heresy of saying that the “handbasket-to-hell” pronouncements of the Greenpeace set are dead wrong, and that things are improving. He cites new oceanographic and marine biological data to suggest that the notion of a “sacred balance” is askew — the North Pacific ecosystem undergoes dramatic periodic “sea changes” of its own accord independent of human impact. Terry Glavin believes that public despair about environmental degradation is another version of millennialism. He cites a long list of species whose numbers have been rising exponentially over recent decades, and he says the First Peoples fished out the salmon to a similar extent to modern commercial fishing endeavors long before the European presence in the Northwest. National Post