Reviews

‘...the most controversial science book of 2001...The thesis has been angrily disputed by some scientists and endorsed by others, but the book is thought-provoking essential reading for those who wish to keep pace with all sides of environmental thinking.’

The Times

‘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

‘Do read The Skeptical Environmentalist… There will be something you agree with, and something that makes you bite the carpet. That's money well spent these days.’

Alex Kirby
Environmental Correspondent of BBC News Online

‘The Lomborg affair merits attention not because of its robust criticisms, character assassination and pressure politics - these are nothing new - but because its extremeness could mark a watershed in how science related to policy and politics.’

Roger A. Pielke Jr
Nature

‘The Skeptical Environmentalist should be read by every environmentalist, so that the appalling errors of fact the environmental movement has made in the past are not repeated. A brilliant and powerful book.’

Matt Ridley
author of Genome

‘… a superbly documented and readable book.’

Wall Street Journal

‘It’s a magnificent achievement.’

Washington Post Book World

‘Whatever your standpoint, The Skeptical Environmentalist will make indispensable reading.’

Mail on Sunday

‘… his book is the Christmas present for a rational future.’

The Chemical Engineer

‘…think of The Skeptical Environmentalist as a young geek’s answer to Al Gore’s Earth in the Balance… Lomborg pulls off the remarkable feat of welding the techno-optimism of the Internet age with a lefty’s concern for the fate of the planet.’

Rolling Stone

‘Bjørn Lomborg is an outstanding representative of the ‘new breed’ of political scientists - mathematically-skilled and computer-adept. In this book he shows himself also to be a hard-headed, empirically-oriented analyst. Surveying a vast amount of data and taking account of a wide range of more and less informed opinion about environmental threats facing the planet, he comes to a balanced assessment of which ones are real and which over-hyped. In vigorous informal style, he indicates what needs to be done to address the real environmental hazards - and what needs not to be done about those turning out to be pseudo-problems.’

Jack Hirshleifer
University of California, Los Angeles

‘The Skeptical Environmentalist is perhaps the most important book about the environment since Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring (1962) awakened the world to the dangers of unrestrained economic growth.’

Jason Cowley
New Statesman

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