Apocalypse Never

• Utgivningsdatum: 2020-07-23
• Mått: 152 x 229 x 34 mm
• Vikt: 592 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 432
• Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• ISBN: 9780063001695

• Centralt styre och förvaltning
• Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik
• Miljöteknik

Michael Shellenberger is the nationally bestselling author of Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko, Founder of Public.News, and CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin. Michael has broken major stories, including on Covid’s origin, homelessness, and the Twitter Files, for which he won the 2023 Dao Award for Journalism. He is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and Green Book Award Winner. And Michael is the founder and president of Civilization, an independent, nonpartisan research organization.

"Michael Shellenberger methodically dismantles the tenets of End Times thinking that are so common in environmental thought. From Amazon fires to ocean plastics, Apocalypse Never delivers current science, lucid arguments, sympathetic humanism, and powerful counterpoints to runaway panic. You will not agree with everything in this book, which is why it is so urgent that you read it." — Paul Robbins, Dean, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison“Environmental issues are frequently confused by conflicting and often extreme views, with both sides fueled to some degree by ideological biases, ignorance and misconceptions. Michael Shellenberger’s balanced and refreshing book delves deeply into a range of environmental issues and exposes misrepresentations by scientists, one-sided distortions by environmental organizations, and biases driven by financial interests. His conclusions are supported by examples, cogent and convincing arguments, facts and source documentation. Apocalypse Never may well be the most important book on the environment ever written.” — Tom Wigley, climate scientist, University of Adelaide, former senior scientist National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)"Michael Shellenberger loves the Earth too much to tolerate the conventional wisdom of environmentalism. This book, born of his passions, is a wonder: a research-driven page turner that will change how you view the world. I wish I'd been brave enough to write it, and grateful that he was." — Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist at MIT and author of More from Less"Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book. Within its lively pages, Michael Shellenberger uses science and lived experience to rescue a subject drowning in misunderstanding and partisanship. His message is invigorating: if you have feared for the planet’s future, take heart." — Richard Rhodes, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb“We must protect the planet, but how? Some strands of the environmental movement have locked themselves into a narrative of sin and doom that is counterproductive, anti-human, and not terribly scientific. Shellenberger advocates a more constructive environmentalism that faces our wicked problems and shows what we have to do to solve them.” — Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now"If there is one thing that we have learned from the coronavirus pandemic, it is that strong passions and polarized politics lead to distortions of science, bad policy, and potentially vast, needless suffering. Are we making the same mistakes with environmental policies?  I have long known Michael Shellenberger to be a bold, innovative, and nonpartisan pragmatist. He is a lover of the natural world whose main moral commitment is to figure out what will actually work to safeguard it. If you share that mission, you must read Apocalypse Never.” — Jonathan Haidt, author of Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion"In this tour de force of science journalism, Michael Shellenberger shows through interviews, personal experiences, vignettes, and case histories that environmental science offers paths away from hysteria and toward humanism. This superb book unpacks and explains the facts and forces behind deforestation, climate change, extinction, fracking, nature conservation, industrial agriculture, and other environmental challenges to make them amenable to improvements and solutions." — Mark Sagoff, author of The Economy of the Earth"The painfully slow global response to human-caused climate change is usually blamed on the political right’s climate change denial and love affair with fossil fuels. But in this engaging and well-researched treatise, Michael Shellenberger exposes the environmental movement’s hypocrisy in painting climate change in apocalyptic terms while steadfastly working against nuclear power, the one green energy source whose implementation could feasibly avoid the worst climate risks. Disinformation from the left has replaced deception from the right as the greatest obstacle to mitigating climate change." — Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science, MIT"Will declaring a crisis save the planet? The stakes are high, but Michael Shellenberger shows that the real environmental solutions are good for people too. No one will come away from this lively, moving, and well-researched book without a deeper understanding of the very real social challenges and opportunities to making a better future in the Anthropocene." — Erle Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and author of Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction"The trouble with end-of-the-world environmental scenarios is that they hide evidence-based diagnoses and exile practical solutions. Love it or hate it, Apocalypse Never asks us to consider whether the apocalyptic headline of the day gets us any closer to a future in which nature and people prosper.” — Peter Kareiva, director of the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA, and former chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy"We environmentalists condemn those with antithetical views of being ignorant of science and susceptible to confirmation bias.  But too often we are guilty of the same.  Shellenberger offers ‘tough love:’ a challenge to entrenched orthodoxies and rigid, self-defeating mindsets.  Apocalypse Never serves up occasionally stinging, but always well-crafted, evidence-based points of view that will help develop the ‘mental muscle’ we need to envision and design not only a hopeful, but an attainable, future.” — Steve McCormick, former CEO, The Nature Conservancy and former President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

5 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

1. 5/5 Mike H 2020-09-09

   Apocalypse never presents positive information about human progress in much the same way a Hans Rosling in his "Factfulness". Shellenberger illustrates his points using real and personal global examples, focusing on the benefit cheap electricity would have in all developing nations. He wants to lift up and promote a return to nuclear power and attempts to dispel the well ingrained fears that many of us have had since childhood. Energy density is key to his understanding of fuels, and is the primary reason why renewables are not suitable replacements for coal, gas or nuclear.
   
   In order to present the positive progress of humanity since the industrial revolution, the author necessarily confronts the modern-day doomsayers. Positive human progress is of no interest to those who want to reduce the human population and return to nature, apparently to save the planet. Shellenberger realises that the motivations for the modern-day apocalyptic preachers is derived from naturalistic religion more than from science. Science is held up as the banner for those concerned about climate change, but their science is often cherry picked and lacking context, if not to say completely distorted occasionally as it suits them.
   
   Shellenberger wishes to walk a middle line with climate change, claiming that there are extremists on both sides, those who exaggerate the threat from climate change, and those who deny climate change altogether. As far as I know, none of the prominent climate sceptics claim that the climate is not changing, indeed they all say "the climate is always changing". In this sense Shellenberger is more in the sceptic camp that the alarmist. He doesn't use the word "denier" himself about climate sceptics, but his quotations of others often do.
   
   In the end, the author wants to return to an environmental humanistic morality. Rather than succumb to the Neo-Marxist nature worship death cult, he wants a return to principles that came from the Judeo-Christian world view, but with out God. Although he often mentions God, as an atheist and evolutionist, he struggles to justify a moral impetus, falling back on the concept of doing things for love.
   
   I highly recommend this book because I learned such a lot. He is inspiring in many ways but dealing with Chernobyl on several pages was perhaps a bit weak. The reader is left with an uncomfortable feeling knowing that an exclusion zone of 1000square miles exists around the site and will probably do so for a very long time, even if the radiation threat is exaggerated and the number of victims is small.

2. 5/5 Roger H 2024-04-26
3. 5/5 Stenåke E 2022-04-25
4. 5/5 Ulf 2020-09-30
5. 5/5 Christer T 2020-09-28