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The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research institutes, Bjorn Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental problems that feature prominently in headline news across the world. His arguments are presented in non-technical, accessible language and are carefully backed up by over 2500 footnotes allowing readers to check sources for themselves. Concluding that there are more reasons for optimism than pessimism, Bjorn Lomborg stresses the need for clear-headed prioritisation of resources to tackle real, not imagined problems. The Skeptical Environmentalist offers readers a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favoured by campaign groups and the media.

Introduction

Part I. The Litany: 1. Things are getting better

  2. Why do we hear so much bad news?

Part II. Human Welfare: 3. Measuring human welfare

  4. Life expectancy and health

  5. Food and hunger

  6. Prosperity

  7. Conclusion

Part III. Can Human Prosperity Continue?: 8. Are we living on

borrowed time?

  9. Will we have enough food

  10. Forests - are we losing them?

  11. Energy

  12. Non-energy resources

  13. Water

  14. Conclusion

Part IV. Pollution: 15. Air pollution

  16. Acid rain and forest death

  17. Indoor air pollution

  18. Allergies and asthma

  19. Water pollution

  20. Waste: running out of space?

  21. Conclusion

Part V. Tomorrow's Problems: 22. Our chemical fears

  23. Biodiversity

  24. Global warming

Part VI. The Real State of the World: 25. Predicament or

progress?

Notes

Bibliography

Bjørn Lomborg (born January 6, 1965) is a Danish author, academic, and environmentalist. He is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and a former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally-known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist.

In 2002, Lomborg and the Environmental Assessment Institute founded the Copenhagen Consensus, which sought to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics.

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　　The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs

that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The

author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the

way in which many environmental organisations make selective and

misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available

statistical information from internationally recognised research

institutes, Bj?rn Lomborg systematically examines a range of major

environmental problems that feature prominently in headline news

across the world. His arguments are presented in non-technical,

accessible language and are carefully backed up by over 2500

footnotes allowing readers to check sources for themselves.

Concluding that there are more reasons for optimism than pessimism,

Bj?rn Lomborg stresses the need for clear-headed prioritisation of

resources to tackle real, not imagined problems. The Skeptical

Environmentalist offers readers a non-partisan stocktaking exercise

that serves as a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts

favoured by campaign groups and the media.

　　? Controversial and comprehensive: up-to-date, authoritative

facts about important environmental world issues ? Costs and

benefits of environmental action and inaction ? Discussion of the

background of pessimism

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The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence. Using the best available statistical information from internationally recognised research institutes, Bjorn Lomborg systematically examines a range of major environmental problems that feature prominently in headline news across the world. His arguments are presented in non-technical, accessible language and are carefully backed up by over 2500 footnotes allowing readers to check sources for themselves. Concluding that there are more reasons for optimism than pessimism, Bjorn Lomborg stresses the need for clear-headed prioritisation of resources to tackle real, not imagined problems. The Skeptical Environmentalist offers readers a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a useful corrective to the more alarmist accounts favoured by campaign groups and the media.