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To: Ilaine who wrote (7194)	8/15/2001 3:22:48 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) of 74559

The truth about the environment Aug 2nd 2001 From The Economist print edition Copyright The Economist Panos Environmentalists tend to believe that, ecologically speaking, things are getting worse and worse. Bjorn Lomborg, once deep green himself, argues that they are wrong in almost every particular ECOLOGY and economics should push in the same direction. After all, the “eco” part of each word derives from the Greek word for “home”, and the protagonists of both claim to have humanity's welfare as their goal. Yet environmentalists and economists are often at loggerheads. For economists, the world seems to be getting better. For many environmentalists, it seems to be getting worse. These environmentalists, led by such veterans as Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University, and Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute, have developed a sort of “litany” of four big environmental fears: • Natural resources are running out. • The population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat. • Species are becoming extinct in vast numbers: forests are disappearing and fish stocks are collapsing. • The planet's air and water are becoming ever more polluted. Continued here: economist.com

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