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    Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
    Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
    Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
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    Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

    Written by Michael Shellenberger

    Narrated by Stephen Graybill

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJun 30, 2020
    ISBN9780063001718
    Author

    Michael Shellenberger

    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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    • 5/5
      Terrific common sense. Everyone should read this book ASAP. Thanks

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A polemical work, well argued and backed up by science. Particularly valuable is the author’s experiential insights.

      The essential premise/argument of the book is that true environmentalism has been taken over by a sensationalist, malthusian influenced, apocalyptic death cult. That death cult is represented by groups such as Extinction Rebellion. These groups and other less extreme but still harmful and essentially corrupt organizations like the Sierra Club take huge “donations” from the renewable energy industry and their buddies in the FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY. At first glance they may seem like strange bedfellows but the author makes the connections and paints the picture for us: when we look at the data, all first world states that have invested heavily in renewable energy sources have a large net increase in their carbon footprint by using MORE FOSSIL FUELS. This is due to the unreliable nature of both wind and solar and their needing backups. The authors solution? Nuclear...!? You’ll have to read to learn more, but if I have got your attention, I assure you that you’ll love this book.

      That said I want to keep an open mind about his positions and the data he has used to back it up. I still think movements like Restoration Agriculture and Permaculture offer us great opportunities. Furthermore, I feel like the author doesn’t address the potential harms of pesticides on the environment and on the consumer. We can’t give anyone an unexamined pass to do as they please just because they promise to solve all our problems.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Amazing book, finally someone who cares enough to tell an unbiased, balanced perspective on the environment. He is a bridge builder who will help us see real positive change for the future.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It really opened my eyes on the truth of climate change. I liked the science and truth behind the author's statements.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Must read for anyone in today’s world of Environmental Alarmism.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed how he looked at the problems and benefits of energy technologies from multiple points of view, impoverished local people, and wildlife in addition to more affluent western communities.
      The entire book does remind me of the exposition section of a Michael Crichton novel. It didn’t bother me.
    • 5/5
      A realist’s take on what we can do to improve our global environment. This is an extremely pragmatic and evidenced base approach.
    • 5/5
      A helpful and we'll needed perspective on climate change. Alarmism hurts everyone.
    • 5/5
      Many books have a lull point. This one never did! Great read and very informative.
    • 5/5
      Well researched and reasoned. A good antidote to the polarization in environmental politics.
    • 5/5
      Spectacular! I have never read such an information dance book in my entire life.
    • 5/5
      A MUST listen/read for ecologists, but really for everyone! Will open your eyes to the deceit that preys on your guilt, and presents cogent arguments for ecology and economic growth at the same time. Outstanding!
    • 5/5
      Wow! What a stunning read. Brave and honest ideas. I'm grateful this hasn't gotten canceled.
    • 5/5
      Worried about the environment? This is the book for you. It points to how we can really solve climate change, protect endangered species, and lift people out of poverty. The solutions may surprise you.
    • 5/5
      This book is honest, well expressed and data driven. it changed my mind on some issues and didn’t on others, but I liked the hope for man and our natural world.
    • 5/5
      A great book for those who believe in climate change but don't believe it marks the beginning of the apocalypse. Also a great book for those who don't believe in climate change and those who believe it marks the beginning of the apocalypse. They just have to open up their minds enough to read it.
    • 5/5
      Enjoyed the book very much, the author was not propagandizing for either side of the issue and that made the book credible and interesting.
    • 5/5
      Amazing! This was the first and only environmental and climate change book I have ever read that was rational, logical, and scientific about the subject. This is the kind of book that anyone and everyone interested in the topic should read. THANK YOU Mr. Shellenberger for this comprehensive and eye-opening book!
    • 4/5
      Really good dispassionate view of data for most of the book. The author becomes more passionate as the book wears on and borders on conspiracy theory - which may very well be the truth. Though I often find it difficult to evaluate claims of conspiracy and corruption, I have to say he has convinced me that he is probably right and to look for more evidence.
    • 1/5
      What's missing from every evaluation of this book is the fact that Shellenberger has zero science qualifications, let alone any that would allow him to speak about climate change accurately with any authority. Unfortunately, for the average person picking up this book who lacks the in-depth background knowledge to properly evaluate the claims he makes, they do seem logical and convincing, despite being based on a litany of falsehoods. There are much better books about climate change that you could read - don't waste your time on this.

      5 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Insane disinformation. Written by an idiot and overall execrable human being.

      This is a mass murder-suicide cult.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Interesting perspective. Much of Shellenberger's evidence for "Alarmism" seems cherry picked in the the same way he criticizes the "Alarmists". Book could have been much shorter.

      5 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Anyone that is versed in the root scientific arguments of climate change will find this book irritable or comical depending on your taste. Those that are not fully informed on the topic may unfortunately find the cherry picking of evidence as truth. The only true thing to come from this book is that media misrepresents climate change in general. Yes climate change is not doomsday by 2050, but the navie claims made here without looking at the broader scope of our global system can give a false sense of security and can encourage people to ignore the problem all together. I suspect the author knows this, but saw his niche and went for it anyway knowing he would find some who would love it.

      1 person found this helpful