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Why Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Climate scientists are speaking out against grossly exaggerated claims about global warming.GETTY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben suggested<\/a> climate-driven fires in Australia had made koalas \u201cfunctionally extinct.\u201d Extinction Rebellion said<\/a> \u201cBillions will die\u201d and \u201cLife on Earth is dying.\u201d Vice<\/em> claimed<\/a> the \u201ccollapse of civilization may have already begun.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few have underscored the threat more than student climate activist Greta Thunberg and Green New Deal sponsor Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The latter said<\/a>, \u201cThe world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.\u201d Says<\/a> Thunberg in her new book, \u201cAround 2030 we will be in a position to set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will lead to the end of our civilization as we know it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes, scientists themselves make apocalyptic claims. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that,\u201d if Earth warms four degrees, said<\/a> one earlier this year. \u201cThe potential for multi-breadbasket failure is increasing,\u201d said<\/a>another. If sea levels rise as much as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts, another scientist said<\/a>, \u201cIt will be an unmanageable problem.\u201d Today In: Business<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apocalyptic statements like these have real-world impacts. In September, a group of British psychologists\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0children are increasingly suffering from anxiety from the frightening discourse around climate change. In October, an activist with Extinction Rebellion (\u201dXR\u201d) \u2014 an environmental group founded in 2018 to commit civil disobedience to draw awareness to the threat its founders and supporters say climate change poses to human existence \u2014 and a videographer, were\u00a0kicked and beaten<\/a>\u00a0in a London Tube station by angry commuters. And last week, an XR co-founder\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0a genocide like the Holocaust was \u201chappening again, on a far greater scale, and in plain sight\u201d from climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong\u00a0 Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in Australia had made koalas \u201cfunctionally extinct.\u201d Extinction Rebellion said \u201cBillions will die\u201d and \u201cLife on Earth is dying.\u201d Vice claimed the \u201ccollapse of civilization may have already begun.\u201d  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[28,141,150,7921,25823],"class_list":["post-49946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-apocalypse","tag-climate-change","tag-collapse","tag-forbes","tag-michael-shellenberger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49947,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49946\/revisions\/49947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}