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The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
by Bjorn Lomborg
from Cambridge University Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Outdated and Uneducated 
An environmental book written by a statistician! 90% of all statistics can be used to show either side of the argument 50% of the time! This author uses this skill liberally.
The first chapter makes a very valid point: be aware of what you're reading and be skeptical! The rest of the book is slanted toward his OPINION and he disregards information that doesn't support his viewpoints.
Many things may not be as bad as some portray but they aren't as rosy as this author portrays either. READ WITH... more info
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The Most Thoughtful Book on the Environment in Print 
The Skeptical Environmentalist is a wonderful book. In today's environmental debates, this is a work without peer. Nowhere else can a person obtain a truly focused and non-biased view (at least as non-biased as a person can be) on the future of our planet and how to meet its problems.
The author is a scientist who specializes not just in environmental matters but statistical research. His mathematical background shows at every step in the book. First of all, he is highly organized. There is never a... more info
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What is the REAL state of the environment and what should we do about it? 
I have always considered myself to be an environmentalist since I was a child and my parents taught me not to litter or be wasteful, to be kind to animals, and to respect and appreciate nature. These are values I've maintained and am trying to pass on to my children. So, like many others, I have become increasingly worried about the condition of our planet with the constant bombardment of sound-bites bearing line after line of ever more distressing news almost on a daily basis.
But after reading... more info
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Whether Right or Wrong, An Honest Attempt
This is the kind of book about which everyone is guaranteed to have a strong opinion.
By "everyone" I also mean to include those who have not ever read it. There will be those, hostile to the environmentalist movement, who will take the book's very existence as proof that there's no cause for any alarm (and maybe that there is no such thing as Global Warming). There will also be those, sympathetic to the environmentalist movement, who will not trouble themselves to read Lomborg's material, but will... more info
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