What’s the best way to tackle climate change? Does economic development always conflict with conservation efforts? How do we secure a safe and prosperous future for our civilisation as well as our planet?

Michael Shellenberger’s new book Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, seeks to answer these questions while tearing down the rigid orthodoxies that have beset environmental activism for the last thirty years.

Endorsed by Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, Richard Rhodes, Kerry Emanuel, and Andrew McAfee, Apocalypse Never is currently the #1 book in both Climatology and Environmental Policy on Amazon. Former senior scientist of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Tom Wigley, has said that Apocalypse Never “may be the most important book on the environment ever written.”

Why? Because Shellenberger is an authoritative voice. An environmental activist for thirty years, he co-created the predecessor policy to today’s Green New Deal, helped save the last unprotected redwoods in California, and has led efforts to keep nuclear plants in operation as alternative clean energy sources.

But in recent years Shellenberger has been driven to speak out against climate alarmism as apocalyptic predictions have become increasingly untethered from available evidence. Shellenberger’s concern is that while alarmism is rife and spreading, awareness of basic facts regarding energy and the environment are not.

Quillette is excited to present Michael Shellenberger as our speaker for October’s Free Thought Live, hosted by our Editor-in-Chief, Claire Lehmann. His 2019 article Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet remains Quillette’s most-read article of all time.