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["Jeff Hall" <JRHALL@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>]

Grist magazine took this book on a few weeks ago:
http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/books/lomborg121201.asp 
Hopefully Edward Wilson, Lester Brown, Norman Myers, etc did a better job of 
it...

>>> genest@together.net 01/01/02 08:38PM >>>

In searching out replies to Bjorn Lomborg's "the Sceptical Environmetalist"
I came across a  promising looking article called "Ten pinches of salt - A
reply to Bjorn Lomborg" by one Tom Burke who is former director of Green
Alliance and Friends of the Earth. ( Graham, can you shed some light on
these organisations?)

Apparently Lomborg lays out, for piecemeal dismantling, what he calls the
environmentalists "litany" ( of "scare tactics and exaggerations")

"The population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat. The air and
water are becoming ever more polluted. The planet's species are becoming
extinct in vast numbers. The forests are disappearing, fish stocks are
collapsing and the coral reefs are dying.
We are defiling the earth, the fertile topsoil is disappearing, we are
paving over nature, destroying the wilderness, decimating the biosphere and
will end up killing ourselves in the process. We are fast approaching the
absolute limits of viability, and the limits to growth are becoming
apparent"....


Now, Mr. Burke's reply: "No major environmental organisation anywhere in the
world subscribes to the views outlined in Proffesor Lomborg's litany".

(There isn't !?!?)

In an article in The Guardian" he writes "There is no concensus among
environmetalists that natural resources are running out".

(There's Not !?!?)


Folks, if this is the best the environmetal movement can come up with to
counter the specious, damaging, and from my experiences over the holidays,
increasingly popular and widesread views of Bjorn Lomborg ( himself a
disciple of Julian Simon) then I think we are in deep doo-doo.....

I've spent the last three hours pouring over replies to Lomborg and one is
more lame than the next.

See for yourself : www.anti-lomborg.com/ 

I'm counting on all you extra-smart list members to take this guy on....

I'll send another email with an article describing his ideas

Claude

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> From: Claude  Genest <genest@together.net>
> Reply-To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 17:36:23 -0500
> To: "permaculture" <>
> Subject: The Skeptical Environmentalist
> 
> Have you begun to have the name of Bjorn Lomborg thrown at you in
> discussions about the environment?
> 
> What do you say in response to "The world is better than ever : people live
> longer, healthier lives than ever before...." ?
> 
> 
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