Apocalypse Never
Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
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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.
©2020 Michael Shellenberger (P)2020 HarperCollins PublishersWhat listeners say about Apocalypse Never
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-08-2020
Welcome addition to the knowledge of Climate Change
Excellent resource to balance the climate change zealots.This should be widely promoted to provide a balanced debate Congratulations to the author hopefully this will be part of a significant rethink by the political leaders worldwide
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-10-2020
A big picture
On the surface this book can be a little confusing because it appears to cover more than just climate change, but Michael covers these interrelated topics (e.g. economic development, conservation, capitalism and greed) to put the issue of climate change into the broader context when discussing the risks of alarmism.
While this book was not a diversion of my own opinion on the issue of climate change, there was quite a bit of material present that has given me a different view of some of these interrelated issues.
This book is not for the faint hearted, it's long, but it is definitely worth the time.
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- Andrew
- 10-11-2020
excellent, factual and entirely engaging
apocalypse never brought to me a coherent scientifically based and factual understanding of environmentalism. political influences, and the factual understanding of humanities persistent technelogical movements towards higher energy density that provide relief from the monumental burden of low power density for the planet, and simultaneously provides salvation for millions lifted out of poverty.
the author provides factual, scientifically founded retort to apocalyptic environmentalism and provides within that, relief and reassurance that the world is a safer more environmentally stable place today and provides hope of a bright future for us and the world we live in.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-12-2021
Thought provoking
An intriguing and thought provoking deep dive at into one of the “hottest”topics in the world today. Taking an honest look at the facts and economic drivers around the world and a peek behind the curtain of climate change fundamentalism, has given me much food for thought. Highly recommended reading.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-08-2022
Transformative
I found apocalypse never to be a window into the climate activism movement, government and corporate policy development and the coercion of facts to achieve a predetermined outcome.
It was heartening to listen of our natural historical progression towards achieving greater harmony with our planet and what we had already achieved, it is not the doomsday we are all constantly fed.
I left the book feeling we have a long future albeit many social and now ingrained climate dogma to overcome.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-07-2020
Genuine Conservation Not Politics
Shellenberger shows how climate alarmism has betrayed both science and humanity, without denying the facts of climate change. At the same time he offers real solutions to real conservation problems such as overfishing of the oceans, plastic pollution, loss of wildlife habitat, and destruction of rainforest. He takes a Humanist approach, starting with the premise that human beings are important, too. People who are more interested in fixing the problems, rather than marching in the streets, should read this book!
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- Gavin
- 08-07-2020
Common sense at last!
Media please read. Parents please read. A prosperous world for all. Not spin and bullshit. We can do this.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-10-2020
Mandatory reading
This book should be on the mandatory reading booklist in schools. It is balanced and opened my eyes to what I thought I knew. It debunked so many lies and misleading headlines. I give it 5 stars because there aren’t 10.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-02-2021
Great read
I loved it, so informative and detailed but easy to understand. It has definitely eased many of my concerns.
I would read it again. Thank you Michael!
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- Jonathan spencer
- 30-07-2022
Apocalypse never
He make some good points some Dubois ones and gives plenty to think about. Worth a listen for sure.
He articulates that Climate change is real and a problem but how to address it while managing scientific and human self interest is not easy. Rationality is required but it is in short supply at the extreme ends of the arguments.
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