Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University, and co-author, with Erik Conway, of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming and The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future. She is also a co-author of Environmental Impacts of Shale Gas Extraction, published by the Council of Canadian Academies. Her latest book is Why Trust Science?
Wishful thinking and corporate greed are leading us down the wrong path to solving our climate crisis.