Left wing, Eco extremists apologizes for the scare tactics and lies he and his people have used about environment.

[2aguy]

Yep.......modern environmentalism is nothing more than an attempt to use scare tactics about the environment and climate change to gain money and power.....

Michael Shellenberger has been a climate activist for 30 years, a liberal activist who went to Nicaragua in the 1980s to help the Sandinistas. He’s traveled the world for liberal causes, pushed the “existential threat” of global warming, but is now apologizing for promoting “climate alarmism.”



Environmental Progress:

On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.

Schellenberger then debunks some facts that climate hysterics have been repeating for years that simply aren’t true. Here are a few.

• Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction”
• The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world”
• Climate change is not making natural disasters worse
• Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003
• The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska

Hear that, you sanctimonious scolds in the vegan movement?

• Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s
• Netherlands became rich not poor while adapting to life below sea level
• Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change
• Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels
• Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture

So why keep your mouth shut all these years? The reasons won’t surprise anyone who has been aware of the suppression of opposing views in the mainstream scientific community that doesn’t comport with the majority.

But mostly I was scared. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public.

Welcome to the world of climate skeptics, Mr. Schellenberger, most of whom have suffered personal and professional travails because of their beliefs.

The reasons for his decision to go public and fight the misinformation relate to the rise of the radical left in the West. Climate hysterics all over the world are raising the stakes in the debate over climate change. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the UN announced that the world will end in 12 years unless we take radical action. Britain’s “Extinction Rebellion” tried to “shut the country down.” The media have become even more hysterical.

But it was seeing the effects on children that affected Schellenberger the most.

Whether or not you have children you must see how wrong this is. I admit I may be sensitive because I have a teenage daughter. After we talked about the science she was reassured. But her friends are deeply misinformed and thus, understandably, frightened.

Climate Advocate: 'I Would Like to Formally Apologize for the Climate Scare'

pjmedia.com

 

[Coyote]

Already threads on this: Wow...A climate change activist comes out and tells the truth