Among the general media, "The New York Times" stated that "The primary target of the book, a substantial work of analysis with almost 3,000 footnotes, are statements made by environmental organizations like the Worldwatch Institute, the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace." The "Wall Street Journal" deemed Lomborg's work "a superbly documented and readable book.". A review in "The Washington Post" claimed that "Bjørn Lomborg's good news about the environment is bad news for Green ideologues. His richly informative, lucid book is now the place from which environmental policy decisions must be argued. In fact," The Skeptical Environmentalist "is the most significant work on the environment since the appearance of its polar opposite, Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", in 1962. It's a magnificent achievement." "Rolling Stone" wrote that "Lomborg pulls off the remarkable feat of welding the techno-optimism of the Internet age with a lefty's concern for the fate of the planet."