Summary of Michael Shellenberger's Apocalypse Never

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 The New York Times and The Washington Post reported on the dangers of climate change, which was based on a special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They warned that warming of 1. 5 degrees Celsius would cause long-lasting or irreversible harm.

#2 Climate change is making wildfires worse, and in some cases, even causing them.

#3 The impact of climate change is dwarfed by the 92 percent decline in the decadal death toll from natural disasters since its peak in the 1920s. In the 2010s, just 0. 4 million people died from natural disasters.

#4 The world is still very much capable of producing food, even with climate change. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations finds that crop yields will increase significantly under a wide range of climate change scenarios.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669383383

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The New York Times and The Washington Post reported on the dangers of climate change, which was based on a special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They warned that warming of 1. 5 degrees Celsius would cause long-lasting or irreversible harm.

#2

Climate change is making wildfires worse, and in some cases, even causing them.

#3

The impact of climate change is dwarfed by the 92 percent decline in the decadal death toll from natural disasters since its peak in the 1920s. In the 2010s, just 0. 4 million people died from natural disasters.

#4

The world is still very much capable of producing food, even with climate change. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations finds that crop yields will increase significantly under a wide range of climate change scenarios.

#5

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a prime example of how first-world prophecies of climate apocalypse can be put into perspective. Within minutes of crossing from Rwanda into the Congolese city of Goma, I was taken aback by the extreme poverty and chaos.

#6

Climate change has not been the main cause of Congo’s ongoing instability. Other factors, such as low socioeconomic development and poor government capabilities, are much more influential.

#7

The name Extinction Rebellion is inherently pointing towards we’re going to be extinct, said the group’s sympathetic spokesperson Sarah Lunnon. But there is no science to back that up.

#8

The billions will die claim is based on a misquote from The Guardian. The article actually said it was difficult to see how we could accommodate eight billion people at a four-degree temperature rise, not a billion people.

#9

The Hohenkammer workshop in 2006 was a gathering of the world’s leading experts on whether climate change was making natural disasters worse. They reached a consensus that climate change is real and humans are contributing to it, but that more people and property in harm’s way