Emily Matthews
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Emily Matthews is a senior associate at the World Resources Institute, a nonprofit, non-partisan policy research institute located in Washington, D.C.
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Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees
On Bjorn Lomborg and deforestation 0
Posted 7 years, 11 months agoIn The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg writes that "basically, the world's forests are not under threat." A charitable reader could attribute this flawed conclusion to errors of omission and ignorance; perhaps the author simply doesn't know the sources well enough to interpret them properly. Less charitably, one might reasonably conclude that Lomborg intentionally selects his data and citations to distort or even reverse the truth. His interpretations of data on global forest cover and Indonesian forest fires aptly illustrate both failings.