The Skeptical Environmentalist

Lomborg suggests that many dire environmental issues are "phantom problems" inflated by the environmental movement.

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December 14, 2001, 9:00 AM PST

In his book "The Skeptical Environmentalist," Danish professor Bjorn Lomborg claims that global warming, deforestation, extinction, air pollution, energy shortages, food scarcity, and other environmental worries are "phantom problems" created or inflated by the environmental movement for its own ends. The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Economist, and plenty of other mainstream media outfits love him -- but do the scientists?

Thanks to Daily Grist

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