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Apocalypse Never - Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Hardcover)
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Apocalypse Never - Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R511
Discovery Miles 5 110
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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.
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