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.
