Public perception about the environment tends to run the gamut from alarm to hysteria. From most of the news headlines, the casual observer would think that we are doing everything wrong, and that nothing is going right. As Gregg Easterbrook wrote in his magisterial book A Moment on the Earth, “Environmental commentary is so fogbound in woe that few people realize measurable improvements have already been made in almost every area.” It is important that environmental trends be more widely understood and appreciated.
