A review by kelsiecb
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger

informative slow-paced

2.5

I found this book to be written in a pretty engaging way for the subject matter, and I do think the author made some good points regarding nuclear energy, the harms of conservation colonialism, and the idea that being in full panic mode about the impending climate apocalypse is not only unhelpful in a personal way, but causes some larger scale poor decisions to be made. I do think Shellenberger engages in a fair amount of information bombing, dropping so many facts that no casual reader can actually hope to check up on them, the last third of the book is his citations. My main critique of the book is that Shellenberger seems to be a proponent of the idea that more development and more innovation from our capitalist overlords (famous for their generosity and consideration of fellow inhabitants of the earth) will save us. There is literally a chapter of this book titled “Sweatshops Save the Planet.”