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== Background == [[File:Bjørn Lomborg small.JPG|thumb|alt=see caption|Portrait of the author, Bjørn Lomborg]] The book was written by [[Bjørn Lomborg]], a Danish [[statistics|statistician]] who worked at [[Aarhus University]]. The ideas and writing for the book began in the 1990s.<ref name=":2" /> He was inspired by an interview with [[Julian Lincoln Simon]] which was published in the magazine ''[[Wired magazine|Wired]]'', in which Simon claimed that calculations he had conducted with publicly available data led him to conclude that standard [[Global catastrophic risk|doomsday]] conceptions of the state of the world were incorrect.<ref name=":2" /> He assumed Simon's views were the product of his [[Conservatism in the United States|American conservative]] thinking, but in 1997, Lomborg undertook a similar assessment with some of his students and came to similar conclusions as Simon.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":8" /> In 1998, Lomborg published four articles in the Danish newspaper, ''[[Politiken]],'' outlining his research and study. These attracted media coverage and controversy in Denmark.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite journal |last=Giles |first=Jim |date=2003-05-01 |title=The man they love to hate |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/423216a |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=423 |issue=6937 |pages=216–218 |doi=10.1038/423216a |pmid=12748610 |bibcode=2003Natur.423..216G |issn=1476-4687 |access-date=3 April 2024 |archive-date=3 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240403200129/https://www.nature.com/articles/423216a |url-status=live }}</ref> These findings were published as a book in Danish on 22 September 1998 as ''Verdens Sande Tilstand'' (''The True State of the World'')<ref name=":2" /> by Centrum.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Verdens sande tilstand |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/463668722 |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=[[WorldCat]] |language=en}}</ref> and as ''The Skeptical Environmentalist'' in English, by [[Cambridge University Press]] in 2001. Sections on [[global warming]], notes and references were expanded in the English edition.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":8" />
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