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Book Review: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Bjorn Lomborg. Cambridge U.K.: Cambridge University Press

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Pimentel, D. Book Review: The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Bjorn Lomborg. Cambridge U.K.: Cambridge University Press. Population and Environment 23, 419–428 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014528920090

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