Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it's not the
end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental
problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener
planet for decades.He helped save the world's last unprotected
redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal.
And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists
to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of
emissions.But in 2019, as some claimed ",billions of people are
going to die,", contributing to rising anxiety, including among
adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong
environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a
teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from
fiction. Despite decades of news media attention, many remain
ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been
declining in most developed nations for over a decade.Deaths from
extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the
last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high
temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population
growth and abundant natural gas. Curiously, the people who are the
most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious
solutions.What's really behind the rise of apocalyptic
environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There are
desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire
among supposedly secular people for transcendence.This spiritual
impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching fear without
love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to
satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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