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At risk of turning this into Griffs book recommendo for every topic- Bjorn Lomborg has written a book called The Skeptical Enviromentalist which attacks the familiar litany of humanities woes using statistics. I've only just started it (and I've got a novel going) but his original idea was to rufute Julian Simons sunshine and lolipops view of the state of the world, after reading an article by Simon which offended his sensibilities. Lomborg is a self-described Green Peacer who thinks we should only attack the problems which are real and progress doesn't seem to be addressing. He sicked a bunch of his students on Simons work and found out, much to his suprise that Simon was usually (not always) right. After I read the whole thing maybe we can start a thread...
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