The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World is an informative yet controversial, extensive yet imperfect book. The author, Bjorn Lomborg, stresses that the state of the world, as a whole, and human life in general is getting better, not worse, and that the alarmist claims of some environmentalists are exaggerated. Lomborg is an expert in statistics, with a background in political science. Thus, he presents an extensive, well-supported and up to date overview of the human and environmental state of the world, including issues such as life expectancy, infant mort…
