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Michael Shellenberger - Apocalypse Never, Inbunden

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Apocalypse Never

Av Michael Shellenberger

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Beskrivning
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 with a fact-based approach to climate change 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 climate alarmism and 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.How can we solve real environmental problems without the fear-mongering?Environmental Science vs. Fiction: Separate the facts from the media hype. Learn why carbon emissions are already declining in developed nations and the risk of extreme warming is increasingly unlikely.The Truth About Extreme Weather: Discover the surprising data showing that deaths from floods, droughts, and storms have plummeted by 80 percent over the last four decades.The Motives Behind Alarmism: Uncover the powerful financial and political interests driving apocalyptic narratives that ignore real-world progress and pragmatic solutions like nuclear power.A New Environmental Humanism: Move beyond a religion of fear and guilt toward an approach that satisfies our deepest needs while protecting the natural world.
Produktinformation
  • 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
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5 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

  1. 5/5 Mike H

    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
  3. 5/5 Stenåke E
  4. 5/5 Ulf
  5. 5/5 Christer T

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