then something strange happened at Forbes and they took the article down. Shellenberger's Points:
· 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
· Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s
· Netherlands became rich not poor while adapting to life below sea level
· We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter
· Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change
· Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels
· Preventing future pandemics requires more not less “industrial” agriculture
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