APOCALYPSE NEVER

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