Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (signed)

Shellenberger, Michael

ISBN 10: 0063001691 / ISBN 13: 9780063001695

Published by Harper, NY, 2020

About this Item

Signed by Shellenberger on the title page and inscribed "For Jessica, with respect!" Uncommon signed. A controversial book from aTimemagazine "Hero of the Environment" that argues against "alarmism" and advocates for pro-growth technological development and nuclear energy as a way forward amid world-wide environmental challenges. Blurbs by Steven Pinker and Richard Rhodes among others. A fine copy in a near fine jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (signed)
• Publisher: Harper, NY
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0063001691
• ISBN 13: 9780063001695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Population
  • Sustainability

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Michael Shellenberger is the nationally bestselling author of Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko, 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. Michael has broken major stories, including on the Twitter Files, for which he won the 2023 Dao Award for Journalism. He is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, an independent, nonpartisan research organization based in Berkeley, California.