Want to save the environment?  Throw your recyclables in the trash and use plastic bags.  This, according to John Tierney, who broke the New York Times Magazine's all-time record for hate mail with his 1996 article "Recycling Is Garbage."  It sounds counter-intuitive, but Tierney – a former New York Times writer and current editor at City Journal – argues that the facts bear him out.  Recycling does more harm than good.

Books by John Tierney:
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It