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"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
- Charles Caleb Colton,
Lacon,
1820
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ZIN Product Number: 10147252
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 Format: Hardcover, 515 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521804477
Release Date: Jan 9, 2001
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Everyday, various opinions are expressed in the media regarding doubts over the Kyoto agreement and the international community's ethical responsibility to the future of the environment. In his controversial new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Bjorn Lomborg, offers a fresh perspective to the debate and challenges the view that we are destroying our planet irrevocably by exploding the widely propagated myth tat the state of the environment continues to spiral downwards beyond our control.
Lomborg investigates a variety of issues, including:
Global Climate Change - Are we dealing with the problem in the right way? Resources - Are we living on borrowed time? GM Foods - Diaster or blessing? Waste - Are we running out of space? Forests - Are we losing them?
Lomborg answers such questions and stresses the need for clear-headed prioritization of resources to tackle real, not imagined, problems. The Skeptical Environmentalist is the result of extensive analysis of a wide range of statistical data and serves as a useful juxtaposition to the headline-grabbing examples used by advocacy groups and the media.
| | | | From The Publisher
Bjørn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges widely held beliefs that the world environmental situation is getting worse and worse in his new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. Using statistical information from internationally recognized research institutes, Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental issues that feature prominently in headline news around the world, including pollution, biodiversity, fear of chemicals, and the greenhouse effect, and documents that the world has actually improved. He supports his arguments with over 2500 footnotes, allowing readers to check his sources.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
Astonishing and provocative
-- A reviewer, A scientist at Bell Labs, February 11, 2002
Also Recommended: Silent Spring (Rachel Carson)
DANGEROUS GREENWASH
-- andrew muller, May 6, 2002
Extraordinary.
-- Brian Clark, July 29, 2002
Bringing Sanity to the Debate
-- J. L. Coolidge, a history professor from North Caro, May 23, 2002
Snake Oil
-- WGL3, May 20, 2002
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Bjorn Lomborg is an outstanding representative of the new breed of political scientists-mathematically-skilled and computer-adept. In this book he shows himself also to be a hard-headed, empirically-oriented analyst. Surveying a vast amount of data and taking account of a wide range of more and less informed opinion about environmental threats facing the planet, he comes to a balanced assessment of which ones are real and which over-hyped.
— Professor Jack Hirshleifer, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles —Jack Hirshleifer
The Skeptical Environmentalist should be read by every environmentalist so that the appaling errors of fact the environmental movement as made in the past are not repeated. A brilliant and powerful book.
— Matt Ridley, author of Genome —Mark Ridley
At last a book that gives the environment the scientific analysis it deserves, and provides understanding of the problem, the risks and the solutions. Essential reading.
— Professor Lewis Wolpert, Department of Anatomy and Biology, University College London —Lewis Wolpert
When Lomborg concludes that'...the loss of the world's rainforests, of fertile agricultural land, the ozone layer and of the climate balance are terrible..'I agree. But we also need debate, and this book provides us with that in generous amounts, including 2,428 footnotes. If you, like I do, belong to the people who dare to think the world is making some progress, but always with mistakes to be corrected, this book makes important reading.
— Professor Lars Kristoferson, Secretary Genral, WWF Sweden —Lars Kristoferson
| |  | | | | List of figures | | | List of tables | | | Preface | | | Language and measures | | | Acknowledgements | | | Permissions | | | Pt. 1 | The Litany | | | 1 | Things are getting better | 3 | | 2 | Why do we hear so much bad news? | 34 | | Pt. II | Human Welfare | | | 3 | Measuring human welfare | 45 | | 4 | Life expectancy and health | 50 | | 5 | Food and hunger | 60 | | 6 | Prosperity | 70 | | 7 | Conclusion to Part II: unprecedented human prosperity | 87 | | Pt. III | Can human prosperity continue? | | | 8 | Are we living on borrowed time? | 91 | | 9 | Will we have enough food? | 93 | | 10 | Forests - are we losing them? | 110 | | 11 | Energy | 118 | | 12 | Non-energy resources | 137 | | 13 | Water | 149 | | 14 | Conclusion to Part III: continued prosperity | 159 | | Pt. IV | Pollution: does it undercut human prosperity? | | | 15 | Air pollution | 163 | | 16 | Acid rain and forest death | 178 | | 17 | Indoor air pollution | 182 | | 18 | Allergies and asthma | 185 | | 19 | Water pollution | 189 | | 20 | Waste: running out of space? | 206 | | 21 | Conclusion to Part IV: the pollution burden has diminished | 210 | | Pt. V | Tomorrow's problems | | | 22 | Our chemical fears | 215 | | 23 | Biodiversity | 249 | | 24 | Global warming | 258 | | Pt. VI | The Real State of the World | | | 25 | Predicament or progress? | 327 | | Notes | 353 | | Bibliography | 435 | | Index | 506 |
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