The Myth of Climate Apocalypse with Michael Shellenberger [S2 Ep.18]

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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I'm pleased to announce that supporters of the show will be able to interact with me through text messages. If you are considering joining our community, you can sign up at colemanhughes.org/ Today's guest is Michael Shellenberger. Michael is a journalist, author, environmental activist and was dubbed ‘Hero of the Environment’ by Time Magazine. He's the Founder and President of Environmental Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating poverty and saving the natural environment. He's co-written and written a number of books, including An Ecomodernist Manifesto, and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, which is the topic of today's conversation. We talked about the trade-off between reducing global carbon emissions and allowing third world countries to industrialize, how civilization would adjust to rising sea levels, whether climate change would lead to military conflict over scarce resources, the claim that we have to cut carbon emissions in half in the next decade, the importance of nuclear energy, cryptocurrency and its environmental consequences, are humans causing a mass extinction, is banning plastic bags a good policy, and much more. #Ad Brilliant is a website and app that teaches you how to think and solve problems with fun, interactive lessons in STEM. With Brilliant's hands-on approach, you'll learn by doing instead of listening to lectures. It’s a better and more fun way to learn. All of Brilliant's courses have storytelling, code-writing, interactive challenges, and problems to solve. Brilliant offers many well-curated sequences of problems that help you to master all sorts of technical subjects and achieve your goals in STEM. To check out the many courses available and find the one that’s right for you, you can go to https://brilliant.org/cwc and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to this link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription #ColemanHughes #MichaelShellenberger #Environmentalist #ClimateChange #Apocalypse #Myth #CwC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.9	Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. Before I introduce today's guest,
1:09.1	I'm happy to announce that supporters of the show will soon be able to interact with me through text messages.
1:14.2	So stay tuned for more updates on that front.
1:17.0	For those of you who are considering joining our community, you can sign up at colemanhues.org.
1:23.9	Today's guest is Michael Schellenberger.
1:27.2	Michael Schellenberger is a journalist, author, and environmental activist.
1:31.6	He was dubbed a, quote, hero of the environment by Time magazine.
1:35.6	He's the founder and president of environmental progress, a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating poverty and saving the natural environment.
1:43.8	He's co-written and written a number of books, including an eco-modernist manifesto, and
1:49.5	Apocalypse Never, why environmental alarmism hurts us all, which is the topic of today's conversation.
1:56.9	Michael's book claims that climate change, while a serious threat, is not an apocalyptic one, and the idea that it is ends up causing more harm than good.
2:05.6	We talk about the trade-off between reducing global carbon emissions and allowing third-world countries to industrialize.
2:11.9	We talk about how civilization would adjust to rising sea levels.
2:16.1	We talk about whether climate change would lead to military conflict over scarce resources.
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