Tuesday, March 12, 2002

It's funny. A guy goes off, does statistical research, and argues that the current state of the environment is better than we think -- not great, mind you, but not so bad -- and he gets hammered by environmentalists. The positive story here is that he's calling bullshit on a few numbers that the environmental community has trumpeted for years, but that lack real data. On the other hand, looking primarily at global statistics may mask very real problems. A good rebuttal is Peter Gleick's, which attacks The Skeptical Environmentalist not on its data, but on its interpretation (and selective omission) of data. Grist also does a good job dissecting the arguments of the book. 10:34:45 PM     Salon: Why do we buy? The article focuses more on why we spend in a recessed economy, but one could just as well ask why we buy stuff we don't need. 9:56:01 PM     The NY Times on the changing economics of recycling. 10:42:10 AM

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