A litany of unfounded statements made by such environmental organizations as Worldwatch Institute, the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace are the target of Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist” (Cambridge University Press, September 2001). Lomborg dissects and refutes the gloomy prognostications put out by such groups which he refers to as the “Litany.”
What makes Lomborg’s observations remarkable is that he is an environmentalist who once belonged to Greenpeace. He is also a political scientist and professor of statistics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. Also, he read and attempted to refute the work of the late resource economist Julian Simon, but failed.
Here are a few nuggets from his book aimed at holding environmentalist groups accountable to reality:
Source: Nicholas Wade, From an Unlikely Quarter, Eco-Optimism, New York Times, August 7, 2001.
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