Liberals attack!

Bjorn Lomborg can not and will not be silenced. When the Left is confronted with something they reflexively don't like (e.g., possible war in Iraq to unseat the dictator Sadam), instead of engaging in intellectually honest debate and pressing their point, they call names like frightened bullies.

The Left is intellectually bankrupt. Hoping they will snap out of it as a lively, honest debate is good for us all.

Tell them, Bjorn:

I am Danish, liberal, vegetarian, a former member of Greenpeace; and I used to believe in the litany of our ever-deteriorating environment. You know, the doomsday message repeated by the media, as when Time magazine tells us that "everyone knows the planet is in bad shape." We're defiling our Earth, we're told. Our resources are running out. Our air and water are more and more polluted. The planet's species are becoming extinct, we're paving over nature, decimating the biosphere.

The problem is that this litany doesn't seem to be backed up by facts. When I set out to check it against the data from reliable sources -- the U.N., the World Bank, the OECD, etc. -- a different picture emerged. We're not running out of energy or natural resources. There is ever more food, and fewer people are starving. In 1900, the average life expectancy was 30 years; today it is 67. We have reduced poverty more in the past 50 years than we did in the preceding 500. Air pollution in the industrialized world has declined -- in London the air has never been cleaner since medieval times.