Apocalypse never : why environmental alarmism hurts us all
Shellenberger, Michael2020
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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, especially 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 - that one can care deeply about the planet without resorting to hyperbole and alarm. 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 as well as the solar minimum cycles. Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions. This book unveils the false religion of the new environmentalist activist movement and urges common sense, practicality, and reexamination of the priorities which have thus far dominated the climate change debate.
Main title:
Apocalypse never : why environmental alarmism hurts us all / Michael Shellenberger.
Author:
Shellenberger, Michael, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York, NY : Harper, [2020]©2020.
Collation:
xiii, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
It's not the end of the world -- Earth's lungs aren't burning -- Enough with the plastic straws -- The sixth extinction is cancelled -- Sweatshops save the planet -- Greed saved the whales, not Greenpeace -- Have your steak and eat it, too -- Saving nature is bomb -- Destroying the environment to save it -- All about the green -- The denial of power -- False gods for lost souls.
ISBN:
9780063001695 (hardcover)9780063074767 (paperback)9780063001701 (ebook)
Dewey class:
304.2
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
653294