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| Reviews “This is one of the most valuable books on public policy - not merely environmental policy - to have been written for the intelligent general reader in the past ten years. . . . The Skeptical Environmentalist is a triumph.” - The Economist “Those who abandon long-held faiths are often strident advocates of their new views. But Dr. Lomborg displays little of the convert’s zeal. His aim is not to preach free-market solutions for every problem or to deny that threats to the environment exist.” - Nicholas Wade, Science Times, New York Times “. . . a superbly documented and readable book.” - Wall Street Journal "The Skeptical Environmentalist marks a critical environmental moment. . . . We can forget those dreary old idols: Paul Ehrlich, Lester Brown with his Worldwatch Institute, Greenpeace and all the others. They have been exiled into the darkness. Eco-optimism can begin to rise over the Earth. After Lomborg, the environmental movement will begin to wither." - National Post "Bjorn Lomborg's good news about the environment is bad news for Green ideologues. His richly informative, lucid book is now the place from which environmental policy decisions must be argued. In fact, The Skeptical Environmentalist is the most significant work on the environment since the appearance of its polar opposite, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, in 1962. It's a magnificent achievement." - Washington Post Book World “. . . 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 "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.
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