Apocalypse Never: Overestimating The Power Of Environmental Alarmists

 This is a short review of a book.

In the long list of what is damaging the environment and mankind's future, the role of environmental alarmists must be far down, if even present at all. 

Is it true that by embracing the artificial we save what is natural, especially in reference to the use of plastic? Plastic pollution is an enormous killer of marine life, including whales, dolphins, fish, sea birds, and more. The widespread use of plastic without any way to properly dispose of plastic waste in most of the world has devastated oceans, rivers and wildlife. 

It is true that there are environmental alarmists. But so what? People exists on the extremes of almost any issue and religion. 

Is concern about deforestation and burnings in the Amazon and elsewhere alarmism? After these great forests are destroyed; the Amazon, Congo, Borneo and so forth, which seems to be the trajectory mankind is pursuing, there will be no second chance to find out if concern for these forests was alarmist. Meanwhile, forests throughout the world continue to have their wildlife decimated by the degradation of the forests, excessive hunting, mining and so forth. Environmentalists, let alone environmental alarmists, have been impotent to stop the devastation of most of the world's rain forests, oceans, wildlife and more. 

Regarding nuclear energy, there are reasonable concerns about nuclear waste, safety, and how to avoid future Fukushima accidents. The greatest resistance to nuclear energy comes from financial and business interests that do not want to compete with nuclear energy. The power of environmental alarmists, if such a breed really exists in any significant or meaningful number, to stop nuclear power or anything else is pretty much nonexistent.