Robert Zubrin, author of MERCHANTS OF DESPAIR

Robert Zubrin is a New Atlantis contributing editor, a fellow at the Center for Security Policy, and the president of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace engineering R&D firm.

He holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering, and has 9 U.S. patents granted or pending.

Robert is the author of 4 nonfiction books.

He has appeared on major media including CNN, C-SPAN, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, NBC, ABC, and NPR.

Mr. Zubrin’s latest book, Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, traces the pedigree of the ideology that human beings are a cancer upon the Earth and provides scientific refutations to antihumanism’s major pseudo-scientific claims.