Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades.

He helped save the last remaining sequoias in the world, participated in the previous iteration of the current green deal, and led a successful initiative of scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants running to avoid a spike in emissions.

But in 2019, while some claimed that "millions of people will die," causing immense anxiety among the citizenship, Shellenberger decided to speak out to separate science from fiction.

Because, in most developed countries, carbon emissions have been reducing for over a decade after reaching their peak.

Deaths caused by extreme weather conditions, even in poor nations, have decreased by 80% in the last four decades.

And the risk of Earth overheating to dangerous temperatures is becoming increasingly unlikely due to population growth slowdown and abundant natural gas.

What lies behind the apocalyptic environmentalism? Powerful financial interests.

Desire for status and power.

But above all, there is a deep desire for transcendence among people who are supposedly non-religious.

This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy.

But by preaching fear without love and guilt without redemption, the new religion is not satisfying our deeper psychological and existential needs.