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He is a very distinguished-yet controversial-Danish scientist who has earned the everlasting enmity of the radical eco-terrorists who have dominated the public discussion over all issues green ever since Rachel Carson et. al. made a hostile takeover of the environmental movement back in the 1970s.

He's been blacklisted by his fellow academics, called every possible epithet in the book, yet he still perseveres in his mission to alleviate suffering in the Third World, a mission that is being severely neglected by the same people who profess such empathy-at least in theory-for the downtrodden of the Earth.

I posted a very interesting thread on this subject about two months ago.

Bjorn Lomborg wrote the incredibly powerful "The Skeptical Environmentalist", which should be the Bible (required reading, at least!) for conservative environmentalists. It clearly defines which issues are driven by science, junk science, and myth. And the benefit is, if you give it to a leftie (since one of the strongest recommendations is by a founder and former member of Greenpeace), it shuts them up for a long, long time. It's one of the most fascinating non-politically oriented political books I've ever read!

Thanks for posting this article! For a conservative environmentalist like me, it distills all the important, big ideas into a handy list. The only one with which I mildly disagree is #3: It is too easy to assign "non-worth" to various species simply because we are not omniscient. We don't YET know the full value of certain of God's creatures here on earth (Mosquitos, what WAS He thinking?), but we cannot arrogantly dismiss their importance just because we haven't yet found out what beneficial purpose they serve.

Another excellent, conservative book is "Dominion" by Matthew Scully, by one of President GWB's former speechwriters.