Solomon, Lawrence

Lawrence Solomon is a Canadian writer on the environment and the executive director of Energy Probe, a Canadian non-governmental environmental policy organization, a member of the advisory board of ''Rebel News'', and a columnist for ''The Epoch Times''. His writing has appeared in a number of newspapers, including the ''National Post'', where he has a column, and he is the author of several books on energy resources, urban sprawl, and global warming, among them ''The Conserver Solution'' (1978), ''Energy Shock'' (1980), ''Toronto Sprawls: A History'' (2007), and ''The Deniers'' (2008).

Solomon opposes nuclear power based on its economic cost, has promoted climate change denial, and has been critical of government approaches and policies used to address environmental concerns.

Career and environmental activities

Solomon writes that he was an adviser to President Jimmy Carter's task force on the environment in the late 1970s, which released The Global 2000 Report to the President in 1980."Lawrence Solomon biography"
''The National Post'', accessed August 2, 2010. For the Global 2000 report, see Council on Environmental Quality and Department of State
"The Global 2000 Report to the President"
Pergamon, 1980; this link courtesy of the Council on Foreign Relations, accessed August 2, 2010. He has a regular column in ''The National Post'', and has written for ''The Globe and Mail'', ''National Review Online'', CBS News, and ''The Wall Street Journal''. He was the editor and publisher of the defunct ''Next City'' magazine. He has also written for American Forests, an environmental conservation organization.

Serving as executive director of the Urban Renaissance Institute, a division of Energy Probe, Solomon has advocated environmental protection, conservation, and safeguards throughout the world, especially in non-affluent nations. He supports reforms in foreign aid, putting a stop to nuclear power expansion, and supports the privatization of transport projects and the expansion of toll roads. "I note that Lawrence Solomon continues to advocate road tolls, and the privatization of the TTC (like London) for Toronto's transportation system." Bruce Campion-Smith In his columns and his book ''Toronto Sprawls: A History'', he blames government policy for exacerbating and encouraging sprawl. He is a critic of subsidies to rural Canada, and has criticized Ontario Hydro's actions and projects and their effects on Canada's environment. He writes that he was very active during the 1970s and 1980s with Energy Probe in opposing attempts to expand the use of nuclear power in Canada.

Global warming

In a series of articles and a companion book published in 2008, ''The Deniers'', Solomon writes about scientists whose views and research promote a contrarian