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Apocalypse Never : Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

Now a National Bestseller!

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.

What’s really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There are desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular people for transcendence. This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching fear without love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs.


Author:

  • Michael Shellenberger

Narrator:

  • Stephen Graybill

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 12 h 19 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Natural sciences
  • Technology
  • Climate, nature, and animals
  • Climate and geography

4.4

33 ratings

Agge

2024-12-19

Great book on the climate hypocrisy

Aron

2022-10-26

Fick mig att omvärdera min syn på omvärlden flera gånger om.

Anonym

2022-05-21

Tänkte att detta kunde vara en bok som inte fokuserade på undergången utan mer på hoppet och lösningar. Men fick en väldigt dålig känsla från start. Att punkta upp ett antal gigantiska problem för att sedan extremt skevt borsta dem under mattan med några vaga argument till varför det inte är relevanta världsproblem, är inte rätt sätt att framföra sin åsikt.. Min uppfattning av boken efter 2 kapitel, eftersom vi kommer ha tillgång till mat och elektricitet så är inte följande några stora problem: massutrotning av djur, extrem värme som först drabbar de fattiga men också resten, brist på dricksvatten, klimatkatastrofer som bränder och översvämningar. Vad är väl 50 grader och inget dricksvatten när man har mat och elektricitet

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    Michael Shellenberger is the nationally bestselling author of Apocalypse Never, a Time magazine “Hero of the Environment,” the winner of the 2008 Green Book Award from the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Center for Science Writings, and an invited expert reviewer of the next Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has written on energy and the environment for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Nature Energy, and other publications for two decades. He is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, an independent, nonpartisan research organization based in Berkeley, California.

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