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Apocalypse never : why environmental alarmism hurts us all / Michael Shellenberger.

Apocalypse never : why environmental alarmism hurts us all / Michael Shellenberger.

Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die," contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction. Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas. Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions. Apocalypse Never unveils the false religion of the new environmentalist activist movement and urges reexamination of the priorities which have thus far dominated the climate change debate.

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Shelf Location 333.72 SHE
Author Shellenberger, Michael
Title Apocalypse never : why environmental alarmism hurts us all / Michael Shellenberger.
Publication Details New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
©2020
Description xiii, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die," contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction. Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas. Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions. Apocalypse Never unveils the false religion of the new environmentalist activist movement and urges reexamination of the priorities which have thus far dominated the climate change debate.
Subject Human ecology
Environmentalism
Green movement
Anti-environmentalism
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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