Recanting the state religion.
Environmental Progress (6/29/20) blog: "On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. I may seem like a strange person to be saying all of this. I have been a climate activist for 20 years and an environmentalist for 30. But as an energy expert asked by Congress to provide objective expert testimony, and invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to serve as Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, I feel an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public. Here are some facts few people know: Humans are not causing a 'sixth mass extinction,' the Amazon is not 'the lungs of the world,' climate change is not making natural disasters worse, fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003, the amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska, the build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California."
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And Forbes spiked it.
The Lid (6/30/20) reports: "For a few short hours, Forbes dared to publish a story that challenged the end-of-the-world narrative championed by the likes of AOC and Greta to bully us into accepting their vision of drastic environmental change. story Forbes censored. One environmentalist, who was himself part of that movement, started to question how the issues were being used to drive global panic, with little or no regard to the relevant scientific facts. Forbes ran his story. And then they pulled it a short time later– adding to the list of truths that the Left will not tolerate:"
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"It’s time to take back cities for people and the automobiles that have liberated them to reach more productive jobs, better homes, lower‐cost consumer goods, and greater recreation and social opportunities."
– Randal O'Toole,
Cato Institute
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