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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
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Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
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Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
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Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
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The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild (Elephant Whisperer, 1)
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Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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Conceptual Physics
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The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
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mikepurvisonAug 6, 2021
Shellenberger's new book Apocalypse Never has been a comforting read in this regard. Despite the provocative title, he's a serious environmentalist and does not argue for "no action" but rather that many of the actions being pursued by NGOs and groups like XR are very short term oriented and not thinking about the big picture of second order effects. In particular, he argues that the key to saving the environment lies in doing things like deploying natural gas and nuclear power into Africa and South America to develop those economies as quickly as possible— that this is the route to stemming coal usage and hitting the world population cap sooner rather than later, and those are the two most important factors when it comes to ultimately controlling emissions.