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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 authors 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.
Star Category ***** |