Ronald Bailey

In the following viewpoint, Ronald Bailey asserts that there is no global ecological crisis and that there has been a solid record of environmental progress in recent decades. Bailey responds to seven “false doomsday predictions” regarding famine, pollution, ozone depletion, and other phenomena, and he discounts “doomsters’ urgent siren calls” to head off an environmental apocalypse. Bailey is the author of Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse and the producer of the public television show Think Tank.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to Bailey, what resources did the Club of Rome expect to become depleted?
2. What have satellite data revealed about global temperature trends, according to Bailey?
3. In the author’s opinion, how do environmental organizations benefit from professing an environmental apocalypse"

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