Bjorn LomborgCambridge University PressEdition: Reprint, 8/30/2001EAN 9780521010689, ISBN10: 0521010683Paperback, 515 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 3.1 cmLanguage: EnglishThe 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, Bjørn 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, Bjørn 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.IntroductionPart I. The Litany1. Things are getting better2. Why do we hear so much bad news?Part II. Human Welfare3. Measuring human welfare4. Life expectancy and health5. Food and hunger6. Prosperity7. ConclusionPart III. Can Human Prosperity Continue?8. Are we living on borrowed time?9. Will we have enough food10. Forests - are we losing them?11. Energy12. Non-energy resources13. Water14. ConclusionPart IV. Pollution15. Air pollution16. Acid rain and forest death17. Indoor air pollution18. Allergies and asthma19. Water pollution20. Wasterunning out of space?21. ConclusionPart V. Tomorrow's Problems22. Our chemical fears23. Biodiversity24. Global warmingPart VI. The Real State of the World25. Predicament or progress?NotesBibliography.'This is one of the most valuable books on public policy - not merely on environmental policy - to have been written for the intelligent reader in the past ten years ... The Skeptical Environmentalist is a triumph.' The Economist
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