Climate change is real but it\'s not the end of the world.
But in preaching fear without love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs..
This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy.
But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular people for transcendence.
There are desires for status and power.
What\'s really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests.
Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions.
And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas.
Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades.
Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade.
Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts.
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.
And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions.
He co-created the predecessor to today\'s Green New Deal.
He helped save the world\'s last unprotected redwoods.
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades.
It is not even our most serious Environmental problem.
Climate change is real but it\'s not the end of the world
