Although media attention has been focused on environmental issues for several decades in a row, many of us still do not know the basic facts. Carbon monoxide emissions have peaked and been declining in most developed countries for more than a decade. Death rates from extreme weather events, even in poor countries, have fallen by 80% over the past 40 years. And the risk of Earth's atmosphere warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely due to slowing population growth and an abundance of natural gas. It's interesting that the people who panic loudest about environmental problems also tend to oppose their obvious solutions. So what is really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmental thinking? The answer is in the book “There Will Be No End of the World.”