{"title":"Books by Michael Shellenberger","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780063001695","title":"Apocalypse Never","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow a National Bestseller! \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClimate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCuriously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eWhat’s really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There are desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular people for transcendence. This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching fear without love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201392509106,"sku":"9780063001695","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780063001695.jpg?v=1786011516"},{"product_id":"9780063093621","title":"San Fransicko","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProgressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat he discovered shocked him. The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities — Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland — had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSan Fransicko\u003c\/em\u003e reveals that the underlying problem isn’t a lack of housing or money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors. The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56222521852277,"sku":"9780063093621","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780063093621_d75806ba-6f36-4c17-8c7c-1225c8f59da8.jpg?v=1786011778"},{"product_id":"9780063421578","title":"The Pathocracy","description":"The road to hell is paved with bad intentions.   In The Left's War on Reality, Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag, two former progressives, delve into the unsettling truth behind the Left’s policies. What they uncover is far more troubling than mere unintended consequences. Through nine meticulously researched case studies, they reveal a shocking conclusion: the destruction caused by the Left isn’t accidental—it’s deliberate.   From open borders and trans “medicine” to climate change and Covid, Shellenberger and Gutentag expose how the Left’s policies are designed to dismantle nations, communities, and lives. Cloaked in the language of empathy and science, these policies mask a deeper agenda: the systematic erosion of civilization itself.   On each of their key issues, progressives inhabit dream worlds, imagining themselves as heroes and their opponents as villains. Lost in these fantasies, the Left rejects real-world evidence and justifies enormous harm through complicated academic theories, pseudoscientific models, and language games.   When confronted with the problems it creates, the Left blames its enemies. Plummeting literacy scores? Racism. The romantic recession? Toxic masculinity. Mass migration? Western colonialism. Euthanizing poor and lonely people? Inequality. Regretful detransitioners? Transphobia. Skyrocketing overdoses? Anti-drug stigma. Failure of renewables? Climate skepticism.   With sharp analysis and compelling evidence, The Left's War on Reality dismantles the Left’s claims of rationality and compassion, showing how progressive policies betray their own ostensible principles and hurt the very people they claim to help.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367760343413,"sku":"9780063421578","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780063421578.jpg?v=1792424739"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-michael-shellenberger.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}