The Skeptical Environmentalist

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  • Author : Bjørn Lomborg
  • Binding : Paperback
  • EAN : 9780521010689
  • Edition : Reprint
  • ISBN : 0521010683
  • Is Eligible For Trade In? : Yes
  • Label : Cambridge University Press
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Cambridge University Press
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 515
  • Package Dimensions : 1.26 inches (Height) x 10.16 inches (Length) x 2.34 pounds (Weight) x 6.93 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2001-08-28
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • SKU : mon0000381920
  • Studio : Cambridge University Press

A controversial, wide ranging and clearly documented survey of the state of the global environment.

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According to The Skeptical Environmentalist the hole in the Ozone Layer is healing. The Amazon has shrunk by only 14 per cent since the arrival of Man. Only 0.7 per cent of species will be driven to extinction over the next 50 years. Even the poorest humans are getting richer by the year. Things are not good enough; but they are far, far better than we have been taught to believe. Lomborg, a professor of statistics and a former Greenpeace member, reveals the complexity, confusion, and (rarely) misuse of data behind the current Litany of approaching environmental Armageddon. But this is not a comforting or reassuring read. Nor is it a bible for lackeys and do-nothings. Lomborg uses the same figures everyone else uses, from national governments to the Kyoto summit to Greenpeace. Rarely have the raw data been discussed in such detail: their history, how they are calculated, their strengths, and their weaknesses. Lomborg argues persuasively that our sense of approaching human and environmental disaster is an artefact of the valid work of modern scientific, environmental and media institutions. There is, he asserts, no one to blame for our growing sense of despair, but everything to learn. We must learn what real risks are, and what we can do about them. (Kyoto? A very bad idea...) We must prioritise. (30p on the organic basil? Or 30p to buy a child clean water in Sierra Leone?) There is, after all, room for manoeuvre; panic achieves nothing. This is our generation's Silent Spring: a book to rewrite the environmental agenda, and a must-buy for any parent who wonders what kind of world we are leaving for our children.--Simon Ings

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