# Getting Environmentalism Right

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/getting-environmentalism-right>

**By** Michael Shellenberger, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell

**Published:** June 4, 2021

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Michael Shellenberger joins the show to discuss how environmental alarmism is misguided.

## Shownotes:

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.

What do we mean by alarmism? What’s really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism?

## Further Reading:

[Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All](https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691), written by Michael Shellenberger