October 19, 2001

'Eco-Optimist' Claims to Puncture Environmental Myths

By MALCOLM G. SCULLY

We are not losing the war to save our planet.

Our resources are not running out, our air and water are not becoming ever more polluted, our forests are not disappearing, our fish stocks are not collapsing, and our coral reefs are not dying. Our survival as a species is not at stake, at least not because of any harm we may be causing to the world's ecosystems.

Those challenges to what he calls the Litany fill Bjørn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the

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