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The Real Marty · 07-01-2020, 07:58 AM

(07-01-2020, 07:13 AM)EricC85 Wrote: https://www.theblaze.com/news/environmen...mate-scare

I know it’s the blaze but this is a really good read. I plan on getting this book and reading more about the topic but I’m glade someone is finally admitting the environmental apocalypse is a shame. Now maybe we can really talk about ways to keep the planet clean and prosperous without the extreme hyperbole that we’re running out of time. Looking at you AOC, 12 years huh?

It's important to note that Shellenberger is not a climate change denier, nor is he an anti-environmentalist or reactionary or libertarian. He is an "eco-pragmatist."

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/boo...22123.html

"Eco-pragmatism takes on the most critical controversies in environmental law today: how to weigh economic costs against environmental quality and human life, how to assess the long time horizons of environmental problems, and how to make appropriate decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty about the scope of environmental problems."

I think I am an eco-pragmatist, too. I believe in the theory of man-made climate change, and I believe it will do great harm to civilization, but on the other hand, I think the Green New Deal is ridiculous and completely un-workable and unaffordable. To me, the correct path to take is not to retreat from climate change with economy-punishing measures that do more harm than good, but rather to go forward and through the climate change disaster. We can't avoid it, so we must go through it and get past it.

I actually think that if you look at what climate scientists have been saying for many years, it is not the apocalyptic vision of the future that many on the left would paint. It's a pretty mainstream line of thought- that climate change is going to do great harm, but in the end, human ingenuity will help us to muddle through and avoid at least part of the damage. We'll survive and be better. There will be losers and winners. It will be a gigantic slow-motion disaster but we will somehow get through it.

Shellenberger also cowrote the "Ecomodernist Manifesto."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecomoderni..._Manifesto