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The Skeptical Environmentalist
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The Skeptical Environmentalist

Measuring the Real State of the World

Cambridge UP, 2001 plus...

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Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Scientific
  • Overview

Recommendation

The earth is not running out of oil. Global warming will not destroy our civilization. Starvation is being eliminated. Pollution is receding, and the environment, in general, is clean and in pretty good health. Do these statements sound preposterous? If so, you’ve probably been spending too much time listening to the scaremongers that make their livings through the media. Or at least, that’s the opinion of Bjorn Lomborg, who shoots down many popular but wrongly held notions with his fresh analysis of long-term environmental and health data. His book is impeccably documented, to the point that many readers will get lost in technical details and statistical analysis. For that reason, getAbstract.com recommends this book primarily to serious students of environmental policy.

Take-Aways

  • Environmentalists like the World Watch Institute and Greenpeace promote a false litany of environmental danger.
  • To understand the world, you must examine long-term trends, as opposed to anecdotes or brief time spans.
  • It is a myth that the economy undermines the environment - environmental development often results from economic development.

About the Author

Bjorn Lomborg  is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He has published in international journals in the fields of game theory and computer simulations.


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