Author Bjorn Lomborg was shocked when he read radical Julian Simon's claim that the "litany of the Green movement was ... hysterical nonsense." He decided to investigate the stats himself, and came back with a book titled, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State Of the World, which is making a lot of environmentalists very angry. His surprising conclusion, on par with Simon's claim, is that the World isn't in as bad environmental shape as we thought, however, we should continue to strive toward a cleaner, healthier world. Read the article here.