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The man they love to hate

机译：他们爱恨的人

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Meeting Bjorn Lomborg for the first time, it's hard to understand what all the fuss is about. For his upbeat assessment of the state of the world's environment, Lomborg has become the bogeyman of the green movement, has been accused of scientific misconduct, and has even been likened in the pages of Nature to those who deny the Holocaust. Yet, in person, Lomborg is far from the ogre that this publicity might suggest. He is calm, friendly and utterly charming. He runs a new environmental research institute in Copenhagen that is disarmingly informal―as I arrived, a member of staff ambled down a corridor, brushing her teeth. Clad in jeans and a T-shirt, Lomborg seems to have more in common with the political liberals that he has so incensed than with the conservative establishment that has eagerly embraced his message. Lomborg's notoriety stems from his 2001 book The Skeptical Environmentalist, a data-heavy assessment of the state of the planet that paints an extremely optimistic picture. The storm that the book generated has been well documented, but just why did the debate become so heated? Will the book, and Lomborg's continuing work, have any lasting influence? And what lessons does the Lomborg affair hold for those who want to promote informed public and political debate about environmental science? The roots of The Skeptical Environmentalist lie in the work of another man whom the greens love to hate: the late free-market economist Julian Simon of the University of Maryland at College Park. In 1997, Lomborg, then a lecturer applying statistics to problems in political science at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, came across a magazine article in which Simon rebutted many of the doomsday predictions that environmentalists have made about the planet. "When I read the article I thought 'hell, no'," Lomborg recalls. "I thought that obviously the environment is getting worse. But Simon said one irritating thing: go check the facts."
机译：第一次见到Bjorn Lomborg，很难理解所有的大惊小怪。由于对世界环境状况的乐观评价，隆伯格已成为绿色运动的忌man者，被指控从事科学不端行为，甚至在《自然》杂志上也被比喻为否认大屠杀的人。然而，就本人而言，隆伯格远非此宣传所暗示的食人魔。他很镇定，友好和完全迷人。他在哥本哈根开了一家新的环境研究机构，这是非正式的武装-当我到达时，一名工作人员在走廊上闲逛，刷牙。 Lomborg穿着牛仔裤和T恤，似乎与他如此激怒的政治自由主义者有更多共同之处，而不是与急切接受他的信息的保守派人士有更多共同之处。隆伯格的臭名远扬源于他2001年出版的著作《怀疑的环保主义者》，该书对行星的状态进行了大量数据评估，描绘出了极为乐观的景象。这本书引起的风暴已经有充分的文献记载，但是为什么辩论如此激烈？这本书以及Lomborg的持续著作会对您产生持久的影响吗？对于想要促进有关环境科学的知情的公共和政治辩论的人，隆伯格事件有什么教训？持怀疑态度的环保主义者的根源在于另一个被绿党爱恨的人的作品：已故的自由市场经济学家，马里兰大学学院公园分校的朱利安·西蒙（Julian Simon）。 1997年，当时在丹麦奥尔胡斯大学应用统计学处理政治科学问题的讲师Lomborg遇到了杂志上的一篇文章，西蒙在其中驳斥了环保主义者对地球所做的世界末日的许多预测。朗伯格回忆说：“当我阅读这篇文章时，我以为'不，不'。” “我认为环境显然正在恶化。但是西蒙说了一件令人讨厌的事情：去检查事实。”

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    《Nature》 |2003年第6937期|p.216-218|共3页
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