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If there was a Who’s Who of climate change alarmists, Michael Shellenberger would be near the top of the list, right alongside Al Gore, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Beto O’Rourke, and Greta Thunberg. As president and cofounder of the Breakthrough Institute, Shellenberger was the creative brains behind a CNN documentary “Pandora’s Promise”, and was called Time Magazine’s “Hero of the Environment.”

When I was a child, I looked to police officers, firefighters, nurses, and teachers as real-life heroes. As I grew older, however, my role models began to change somewhat and included Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, my brother Jay, and my dad. Five years ago, I found another hero, a superhero even, and she was only ten years old.