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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World

Bjorn Lomborg

Pages: 514
University Press, Cambridge, UK
ISBN: 0-521-01068-3

Bjorn Lomborg is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. This book and the author’s views on the many unfounded scares promoted by certain influential environmental bodies was the subject of an excellent documentary on BBC TV (Sept 2002).The book is thoroughly researched and written in beautiful English, making the science interesting to read. He exposes many areas where the environmental movement has misrespresented the facts and over-hyped the problems, At last an authentic and balanced assessment as to which envirormental problems are real and which are not.

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