NGOs and the Environment

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This paper illustrates the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in dealing with global environmental issues, using Bjorn Lomborg's "The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World" as the primary source. It looks at how Lomborg uses a vast array of issues, such as human welfare, pollution, population growth, economic growth, energy, chemical fears, and biodiversity, in order to refute a wide prevalence of many of the more popular, ostensibly grave and foreboding, environmental myths of today.

Outline
Introduction
Environmental Woes and their Relevance to the Organizational Sector (S)
The Tenets of Lomborg?s Ideology Within His Book
Argumentative Stance (S) Regarding Lomborg's Ideology
More on the Globally Environmental Role of NGOs
Conclusion

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"Ironically, however, the ban on hunting, obviously passed in the hopes of preserving wildlife, actually led to the destruction of the herds as a result of the fact that it allowed the elephant herd to become over populated, subsequently causing the beasts to trample and destroy its own habitats. Taking a similar event from a dramatically different perspective, however, in regard to the protesting stand that a prevalent portion of the collective NGO community has taken regarding whaling, it simultaneously becomes apparent, with especial regard to the actuality of sea life diminishing, that the NGO community is involved in a righteous battle (Andresen, 2001)."

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