Customer Reviews
A truly excellent book - By: Benedictus, 26 Jul 2008 
This is one of those books which change the course of things.
It is hugely impressive not only because of the absolutely massive amount of research involved, but because the entire work comes from someone who had, initiallly, entirely opposite convictions to those reflected in the book & had the intellectual honesty to understand that he was wrong, accept it & spread the word.
More notable is the book also for the unbelievable smearing campaign & the attempt at character assassination of which the author has been made object from his former companions, a truly sobering experience about the ways of "idealists","world savers" & apostles of "tolerance".
And mind, this is not someone just pretending to have been converted to sell a bit more; the author was very active in his academic milieu & certainly not the conservative type (openly & vocallly leftist, openly & vocallly homosexual). This gives the claims in the books, apart from the huge & ruthlessly accurate research - though the occasional mistake may have slipped here & there - the more credibility.
The environmental hype is now slowly ebbing down; common sense starts to prevail; the mayor of London with his ecoterrorist agenda (actuallly populism & class warfare with another name, as it is often the case) lost his job & alll other british politicians listened to the message; in general, politicians have become more & more timid in trying to "look good" by imposing new taxes "to save the planet". This book shares a part of the merit.
Buy it & will you never regret it.
Human Life at Any Price? - By: Cardano, 23 May 2008 
The whole thesis of this book is predicated on the moral superiority of the preservation & extension of human life for the maximum number of people. As such it essentiallly adopts a moral standpoint that values human life, well-being & happiness above alll other forms of life & environment on the planet. Human life at any price, it seems.
Will make you think twice next time you hear a stat on the environment - By: L. M. STOCKLEY, 28 Feb 2008 Having always been in the technocentric camp & always been skeptical of environmental issues such as climate change & pollution, I read this book after my environmental issues lecturer put me in touch with it. I have to say that I was amazed with some of the 'propaganda' that environmental groups such as the WWF & green peace were putting out. An excellent read for those who are sick of the doom & gloom merchants we are now regularly seeing on the television on the subject of climate change. Although this is book is quite advanced particularly in the statistics department, (MR. Lomborg is an economist by trade), It is essential reading for those wishing to throw come back stats into the faces of the doom mongerers
Scare tactics exposed! - By: P. N. Bertenshaw, 05 Dec 2007 I bought this book several years ago after reading a review in a reputable newspaper. What reallly interested me was a report on the facts behind soil erosion, namely that the information was based on data from a very smalll scale experiment on sloping farm land in Belgium & simply extrapolated to cover alll soils around the world! I couldn't believe that supposedly reputable people & organisations, would go to such obscene lengths to scare people into contributing to their research projects & funding. How wrong I was!
I enjoyed the book immensely & shook my head in disbelief on discovering how selective the environmentalist scaremongers were regarding data selection & how specificallly it was presented so as to alllow the reader to draw the obvious conclusion, ie- The one the scaremonger wanted them to draw.
The devil is in the detail & when he examined the facts & data behind the scary low sperm count headlines, the flawed nature of the data analysis & presentation soon became clear.
Bjorn Lomborg succeeded in exposing the scare stories for what they reallly were, just that. Unfortunately, he seems to be a lone voice & like a radio in a boiler factory, is in danger of being drowned out by the noise.
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numbers and facts - By: Bruce, 28 Oct 2007 Great read & a well researched book. Destined to be the bible on global issues.
There is so much presented. From population, wealth & health to climate & the environment. Not sure I could take anyone seriously unless they have read this book cover to references & notes!
