… is from page xiii of Michael Shellenberger’s superb 2020 book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All:
Much of what people are being told about the environment, including the climate, is wrong, and we desperately need to get it right. I decided to write Apocalypse Never after getting fed up with the exaggeration, alarmism, and extremism that are the enemy of positive, humanistic, and rational environmentalism.