Professor Bjorn Lomborg has become the target of
environmental activists. Last week, activists convinced the University
of Western Australia to cancel a plan with Lomborg to create a major
research center that would focus on the economics of global development
projects. Why were global warming activists upset? Because Lomborg
doesn’t believe global warming is currently the greatest threat facing
mankind. Activists
pressured
the university to return $4 million to the Australian government that
would have gone to create the think-tank Australia Consensus. The move was
celebrated
by environmentalists, but bemoaned by Australian conservatives as a
blow to free and open debate. Lomborg, the self-styled “skeptical
environmentalist,” didn’t sit idly by, but instead took to the
opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal to voice his disgust...
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