Apocalypse Never - Michael Shellenberger
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Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
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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This post has 11 comments
July 17th, 2020
Deeply and fatally flawed book.
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/review-bad-science-and-bad-arguments-abound-in-apocalypse-never/
July 17th, 2020
Thanks for the review. I never thought I would say this, but my faith in the media, in activists, and in Dems/liberals is at an all time low. I’ve never trusted Republicans or fox news, and now I don’t trust academics, the NYT’s, msnbc, etc… It’s like living in a world of illusions… never knowing what to believe.
It all started with the liberal media’s response to the Google memo. What a strange trip it’s been.
I don’t know what to believe anymore, and trying to secure the slimmest of epistemic confidence requires too much effort for all but the things you are really interested in.
I guess it was best to
July 17th, 2020
ehead, you’re not alone.
July 17th, 2020
Distrusting everything is 100% the plan. When all rational sources can be depicted as having a hidden agenda, you can go with a strong leader who makes you feel like the salad days will return. Factual people speak with parsing and qualification; populists and con artists speak in smooth, calming tones of how if we just allow them to make laws that protect us and constrain others (the wrong people, who shouldn’t be here anyway), all will be well. Wearing masks or getting onto clean energy are an infringement of your rights, dontcha know? The Earth isn’t getting hotter and COVID is a hoax, you betcha. Trust me.
July 17th, 2020
Time to quit drinking the Global Warming Koolaid. The Man made climate hoax has been clearly shown to be false, first by its failed prophecies, second by it motives and finally by its utter contradictions. thanks for the book another nail in the socialist agenda’s coffin.
July 17th, 2020
Old Russian proverb: Trust, but verify.
Putin’s occasional éminence greasy (or “Putin’s Rasputin”) freighted with a background in the theatre & advertising, Vladislav Surkov, dood behind the concept of “sovereign” (or ‘managed’) democracy, and overseer of Putinism’s bewildering media blitz of political repression and postmodern propaganda, is a past master at sowing such confusion and cynicism in the public mind. With some carefully curated dissent thrown in, gratis.
He kept the ‘pocket opposition’ under the control of the Kremlin. A useful skill for sculpting reality.
It’s all about shaping and reshaping public opinion, spinning narratives like plates, painting a façade of liberalism over illiberal intent. That’s to keep our heads similarly spinning.
Such destabilising perplexity & creative confusion - performative democracy - seems to be the wave of our future, my pretties.
July 17th, 2020
(Except our rendition of it might not be infused with that depressive, malignant cynicism which seems to poison the Russian mind. It also creates some of the best books.)
July 18th, 2020
Thanks
July 23rd, 2020
Invasive species increase biodiversity .
July 26th, 2020
If you can’t hold 2 opposite points of view in your head then don’t bother with this. I’ve never read anything that convinced me global warming wasn’t the death knell of human society as we know it but I’m willing to at least listen.
August 5th, 2020
https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2020/8/3/bad-science-and-bad-ethics-in-peter-gleicks-review-of-apocalypse-never-at-yale-climate-connections
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