Customer Review: With the financial system collapsing due to deregulation, greed and irrational hubris, this short book is the latest fad for all who believe government is a problem, not the solution. Granted, Lomberg admits, "humanity has caused a substantial rise in atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels over the... more info
Customer Review: I am finding I am not alone in my cynicism of the blind buy-in of "the sky is falling" mentality towards the environment and the now coined "green movement". The author presents a great deal of data to support his thesis but it is well written.
Customer Review: This books reviews the outcomes of the so-called Copenhagen consensus, in which a panel of distinguished economists try to rank the policy solutions to the most important problems that face the world today in terms of their costs and benefits. The problems include climate change, hunger and... more info
Customer Review: Global Crises, Global Solutions; edited by Bjorn Lomborg, who brought us The Environmental Skeptic, has produced a collection of articles where experts attempt to prioritize which global problems should be dealt with, and how they should be solved. Although an excellent idea, the actual writing is... more info
Customer Review: I decided to buy this book in Amazon because it was cheaper than trying to purchase it here in Spain.(36 euros in spanish in a bookshop here in Spain, but only 24 euros in english, everything included).
It is a good book for those how like views of planet Earth from above, and also interested... more info