The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World

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