Michael Shellenberger is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, and Time Magazine named him "Hero of the Environment" for 2008. Michael is a leading energy, security, and environmental expert. He advises policymakers around the world, including in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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)
"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
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