I Thought Climate Change Would End the World. I Was Wrong.
A member of a climate change activist group, chained to others, during the group’s long-planned “International Rebellion” in London, England, on October 7, 2019. (via Alamy)
My worldview was built on apocalyptic models sprung from faulty assumptions.
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I used to argue that if the world kept burning fossil fuels at current rates, catastrophe was virtually assured.
“The heating of the earth,” Michael Shellenberger and I wrote in our 2007 book, Break Through, “will cause the sea levels to rise and the Amazon to collapse and, according to scenarios commissioned by the Pentagon, will trigger a series of wars over the basic resources like food and water.”
I no longer believe this hyperbole.
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