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Interesting note about the author of the first book:
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A 2020 Forbes article by Shellenberger, in which he promoted Apocalypse Never, was analyzed by seven academic reviewers and one editor from the Climate Feedback fact-checking project. The reviewers conclude that Shellenberger "mixes accurate and inaccurate claims in support of a misleading and overly simplistic argumentation about climate change." Zeke Hausfather, Director of Climate and Energy for The Breakthrough Institute, wrote that Shellenberger "includes a mix of accurate, misleading, and patently false statements. While it is useful to push back against claims that climate change will lead to the end of the world or human extinction, to do so by inaccurately downplaying real climate risks is deeply problematic and counterproductive."
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What is interesting is that denying that climate change is real and affecting is a sort of reverse Pascal's wager. You can see that majority scientific consensus concludes that it is real and we face imminent danger yet denial is the option chosen for some. Maybe some can only accept reality when it is present and not pending?