It's Not Easy, being a

It's Not Easy, being a Green with a Brain - Greens are outraged - and queuing up with plenty of lousy science,and worse - over Bjorn Lomborg's "The Skeptical Environmentalist". Lomborg, by the way, is a Danish Green who, in the process of trying to refute Julian Simon's various debunkings of Green gospel, discovered he, too, was a skeptic.

Ronald Bailey's article has the quote I wish I'd come up with.

Unfortunately for the doomsayers, their central predictions are simply not coming true. And so their best and perhaps only defense against a dispassionate analysis of their claims has been to smear the analyst

. I spent last Thursday evening in a room full of Greens (it's not quite as bad as it sounds), and have run into a lot more lately - and Bailey's dead on in so many areas. The smear is the left's main rhetorical tool these days - which is subject for another screed, another day...

The book, by the way, is a must-read, whether you're a Green or a free-marketeer (although a lot of Green acquaintances respond by saying "I don't want to read it!").

Posted by Mitch at April 29, 2002 07:39 AM