On January 21, 2004, Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, is making an appearance at Rice University. He will be speaking at the Jesse Jones school of Management from 4:00pm - 6:00pm. I was told of this by a friend of mine last week.
With that, I managed to hunt down a copy of TSE on Sunday and have scanned through the book. The book is 350 pages, has 2930 footnotes, and a 70 page bibliography. I've already found a few gems. Paul Ehrlich is on record in 1987 as having predicted that the world would have another energy crisis in the 1990's. That adds to his already long and sorry record as forecaster. At least, I'm better at forseeing the future than he is!
I understand that Rice is not pushing publicity, so I'm wondering what the situation is going to turn out like. It ought to be interesting to see how many of the hardcore environmental crowd out there show up to give the man problems.
TMW.
Posted by The Mighty Wizard at January 20, 2004 06:30 AM