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Environmental sceptic new Danish green group chief |
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| DENMARK: March 1, 2002 | ||
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COPENHAGEN - A man who believes global warming is a minor affair has been named to head a new Danish independent environmental institute.
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The appointment of Bjorn Lomborg, author of the controversial book "The Sceptical Environmentalist", as director of the Institute for Environmental Valuation has enraged local environmentalists and invited criticism from opponents abroad. The 37-year-old Aarhus University statistician's book earned the enmity of the green movement for contending there is no environmental crisis when it was published in English by Cambridge University Press last August. "The Sceptical Environmentalist" argues that forests are hardly declining, few animal species have gone extinct lately, rivers and oceans are becoming cleaner, we will not run out of raw materials, energy and fresh water and that global warning will be so minor it will be cheaper just to adapt to it. Most of the book's contentions contradict the conclusions of a host of prominent scientists, who were astonished the book had even been published.
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