Excellent job on the series of articles rebutting the Bjorn Lomborg litany. I offer a possible explanation for the reported flaws in his book's premise and presentation. Because Lomborg, by his own admission, is "very left wing," he may not be familiar with the conservative principles that underlie conservation: prudent reduction of risks, stewardship of the resources in our care, piety toward God's creation, and, perhaps most important, equity for the generations that will follow ours.

As the conservative thinker Edmund Burke taught, society is an intergenerational contract linking past, present, and future. We owe it to our descendants to be better safe than sorry, be conservative, and take good care of the only planet we have.


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