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Apocalypse Never de Michael Shellenberger

Apocalypse Never

Autor Michael Shellenberger
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iul 2020

Aplicabilitatea practică a volumului Apocalypse Never rezidă în capacitatea sa de a reinterpreta datele climatice brute într-un cadru de politici publice raționale, oferind o alternativă argumentată la discursul alarmist contemporan. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Michael Shellenberger folosește experiența sa de decenii în activismul ecologist pentru a demonstra că, deși schimbările climatice sunt reale, ele nu reprezintă un sfârșit iminent al lumii. Autorul aduce în discuție fapte adesea ignorate de mass-media: scăderea drastică a mortalității cauzate de fenomene meteo și reducerea emisiilor de carbon în țările dezvoltate. Structura narativă a cărții, îmbogățită de un insert color de 8 pagini, nu se limitează la ecologie, ci explorează rădăcinile cvasi-religioase ale „ecologismului apocaliptic”, identificând dorința de transcendență și interesele financiare din spatele acestuia.

Putem afirma că lucrarea reprezintă o alternativă necesară la False Alarm de Bjorn Lomborg pentru cursurile de politici de mediu și dezvoltare durabilă, având avantajul unei perspective „din interiorul” mișcării ecologiste. În timp ce Exploring Apocalyptica de Frank Uekotter analizează clișeele istorice ale dezastrului, Shellenberger se concentrează pe soluții tehnologice concrete, precum energia nucleară și gazele naturale. Această abordare continuă temele din Apocalypse - niemals! și extinde critica socială prezentă în alte lucrări ale sale, precum San Fransicko, unde autorul analizează eșecurile politicilor progresiste în mediul urban. Recomandăm acest titlu pentru rigoarea cu care separă datele științifice de proiecțiile ideologice, oferind un ton echilibrat într-o dezbatere adesea polarizată.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780063001695
ISBN-10: 0063001691
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 8-page color insert
Dimensiuni: 156 x 236 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Harper Collins Publ. USA
Colecția Harper

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă realitatea climatică dincolo de titlurile alarmiste. Veți câștiga o perspectivă bazată pe date concrete despre progresul ecologic real și despre motivele pentru care soluțiile evidente sunt uneori respinse. Este o lectură esențială pentru studenții la științe politice și ecologie care caută un model de analiză rațională a problemelor globale, oferind argumente solide împotriva anxietății climatice nefondate.

Despre autor

Michael Shellenberger este un expert recunoscut în energie și activist de mediu, co-fondator al Breakthrough Institute și director general al American Environics. De-a lungul carierei sale, a activat ca strateg pentru organizații ecologiste, implicându-se direct în protejarea ecosistemelor de sequoia și în promovarea energiei nucleare ca soluție pentru reducerea emisiilor. Experiența sa vastă, care include analize economice și politice în lucrări precum Fighting for the Soul of Brazil, îi conferă autoritatea de a critica derapajele ideologice din interiorul mișcărilor pentru protecția mediului, pledând constant pentru un umanism ecologic bazat pe știință și progres tehnologic.

Descriere scurtă

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.

Recenzii

"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
“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
"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
"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

"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
"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
"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
"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
"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

Notă biografică

Michael Shellenberger is the nationally bestselling author of Apocalypse Never, 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. He is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, an independent, nonpartisan research organization based in Berkeley, California.