The End of the World Will Not Happen: Why Environmental Alarmism Is Harming Us
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The End of the World Will Not Happen: Why Environmental Alarmism Is Harming Us
14.99 €
Michael Shellenberger is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, an "environmental hero" according to Time magazine, a 2008 Green Book Award winner of the Stevens Institute of Technology's Center for Science and an invited expert reviewer for the IPCC assessment report. He has written articles on energy and the environment for the world's leading publications for 20 years. It's true that the climate is changing, but it's not the end of the world. And it's not even the most serious environmental problem. Often, the people who panic the loudest about environmental problems also tend to oppose their obvious solutions. So what's really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmental thinking? Although media attention has been focused on environmental issues for decades now, many of us are still unaware of the basic facts. Carbon monoxide emissions have been peaking and declining in most developed countries for more than a decade. Deaths from extreme weather events, even in poor countries, have fallen by 80% in the last 40 years. And the risk of the Earth's atmosphere warming to very high temperatures is becoming increasingly unlikely due to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for decades to make our planet greener. He saved the world's last sequoias, co-authored the predecessor to today's Green New Deal, and worked with climate scientists and activists to make huge efforts to keep nuclear plants running, preventing a dramatic increase in harmful emissions. When rumors swirled in 2019 that "billions of people would die" and panic gripped people, Michael decided that he - as a longtime environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter - simply had to do his part to separate science from fiction. The result of his research was the book, There Will Be No End of the World.
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