Get the facts straight
A focused investment in maternal and newborn health could save more than a million lives annually
Published by BBC
BBC Radio 4's The Today
2012-06-19 Bjorn Lomborg
BBC asked Dennis Meadows, co-author of Limits to Growth, to debate its predictions, but he said no sound bite would convince people who would listen to people like Lomborg. Yet, this debate is not about sound bites, Lomborg explains on the BBC Today program. It really is about a 40 year track record of spectacularly bad predictions. Limits to Growth set the agenda for worrying about the wrong problems with poor solutions.
Published by New York Post
Starting in the 1990s, at the end of the Cold War, climate change became a fixation for rich-country politicians and elites.
Published by Bloomberg
2013-11-06 One of the longest-running big picture debates is between optimists and pessimists arguing the state of the world. Pessimists have constantly painted a dystopian future from Malthus and Jevons to the 1972 book Limits to Growth. Optimists have cheerfully pointed to how everything is getting better.