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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.
National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers
progressives for the mishandling of America's faltering cities.
Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness,
inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives
made those problems worse. Michael Shellenberger has lived in the
San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he
advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing,
and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments
spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to
take a closer look at the problem. What he discovered shocked him.
The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive
policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities - Los Angeles,
Seattle, Portland - had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness,
drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them. San Fransicko
reveals that the underlying problem isn't a lack of housing or
money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that
designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims
entitled to destructive behaviors. The result is an undermining of
the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.
Diverse collection of articles includes eyewitness reports,
interviews, and political and economic analyses dealing with the
1994 elections, the impeachment of President Collor, the subculture
of abandoned street children, changes in Amazonia, and popular
protest--Handbook of Latin American Studie
Current tactics can't solve today's complex global crises. The "bad
boys of environmentalism" call for a bold and empowering new vision
Environmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
triggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published
essay "The Death of Environmentalism," which argued that
environmentalism cannot deal with global warming and should die so
that a new politics can be born. Global warming is far more complex
than past pollution problems, and American values have changed
dramatically since the movement's greatest victories in the 1960s,
but environmentalists keep fighting the same old battles. Seeing a
connection between the failures of environmentalism and the
failures of the entire left-leaning political agenda, the authors
point the way toward an aspirational politics that will resonate
with modern American values and be capable of tackling our most
pressing challenges. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to the
original essay, the authors give us an expansive and eloquent
manifesto for political change. What Americans really want, and
what could serve as the basis for a new politics, is a vision
capable of inspiring us to greatness. Making the case for
abandoning old categories (nature/market, left/right), the authors
articulate a pragmatism fit for our times that has already found
champions in such prominent figures as Hillary Clinton and Barack
Obama. This book will hit the same nerve as What's the Matter with
Kansas and Don't Think of an Elephant. But its analysis will
reshape American politics for decades to come.
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