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The Skeptical Environmentalist
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Bjorn Lomborg
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2009
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Book chapters
pp. xix
Preface
pp. xxi
Language and measures
pp. xxiv
Permissions
pp. 3
Things are getting better
pp. 34
Why do we hear so much bad news?
pp. 45
Measuring human welfare
pp. 50
Life expectancy and health
pp. 60
Food and hunger
pp. 70
Prosperity
pp. 87
Conclusion to Part II: unprecedented human prosperity
pp. 91
Are we living on borrowed time?
pp. 93
Will we have enough food?
pp. 110
Forests – are we losing them?
pp. 118
Energy
pp. 137
Non-energy resources
pp. 149
Water
pp. 159
Conclusion to Part III: continued prosperity
pp. 163
Air pollution
pp. 178
Acid rain and forest death
pp. 182
Indoor air pollution
pp. 185
Allergies and asthma
pp. 189
Water pollution
pp. 206
Waste: running out of space?
pp. 210
Conclusion to Part IV: the pollution burden has diminished
pp. 215
Our chemical fears
pp. 249
Biodiversity
pp. 258
Global warming
pp. 327
Predicament or progress?
pp. 353
Notes
pp. 435
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