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Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees
On Bjorn Lomborg and deforestation |
Emily Matthews |
12 Dec 2001 |
Arts and Minds |
| In 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 ... |
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| Topics: books, deforestation, Indonesia (all these topics) |
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