Many environmentalists claim that natural resources are running out, species are being driven to extinction at alarming rates, and, in general, that the state of the environment is spiraling out of control--but are these claims true? Not according to Bjorn Lomborg, a professor of statistics and former member of Greenpeace....

At an October 12 conference, policymakers considered ways to more effectively deploy limited global environmental resources.

Radical--or, more accurately, reactionary--environmentalism has become a religion, or a religion-substitute.

As the European Union struggles to expand, to "harmonize" its thousands of overlapping rules, to manage its uncountable internecine jealousies and to formulate a new understanding of what it means to be European, there is one thing all Europeans seem to agree on. It is faux horror about the United States.

We all wish that there were money enough to solve all of the world’s pressing social and environmental problems: HIV and malaria kill tens of millions of people each year; eight hundred million people are malnourished or starving; billions lack proper sewerage; and by some accounts, climate change may threaten...

Bjørn Lomborg's real sin is environmental incorrectness.