Some amount of fear of nuclear weapons is necessary for nuclear deterrence to work. — Michael Shellenberger Deterrence Copy Share Image
Making anything more labor-intensive makes it more expensive. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
In truth, humankind has never been at risk of running out of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Energy Copy Share Image
The flip side of renewables' low energy density is their low return on energy invested. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
The main problem with biofuels - the land required - stems from their low power density. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality. — Michael Shellenberger Character Copy Share Image
For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.' — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
Hawks and doves have long found common ground opposing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states. — Michael Shellenberger Common ground Copy Share Image
The renewable industry claims technical innovations will improve solar and wind - but in reality nothing can change the lower power density… — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
The burden of higher cost electricity and benefits of renewable energy subsidies fall unevenly on Californians. — Michael Shellenberger Californians Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from… — Michael Shellenberger Common people Copy Share Image
Nuclear is the largest source of clean, carbon-free power in rich nations, and the science shows it is the safest way to… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
If you want to save the natural environment, you just use nuclear. You grow more food on less land, and people live… — Michael Shellenberger Environment Copy Share Image
What we need to talk about is what we want America to look like: what a sustainable, economically prosperous America looks like… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Allowing for suburbanization of California's ranches and farmlands would still allow for strong protections of California's truly natural areas like Yosemite, the… — Michael Shellenberger California Copy Share Image
I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Solar and wind advocates say cheaper solar panels and wind turbines will make the future growth in renewables cheaper than past growth… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Chernobyl' is supposedly about the lies, arrogance, and suppression of criticism under Communism, but the mini-series portrays life in the Soviet Union… — Michael Shellenberger Arrogance Copy Share Image
Humankind has never transitioned to energy sources that are more costly, less reliable, and have a larger environmental footprint than the incumbent… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
YIMBYs should embrace a housing reform agenda broader than increasing urban density. This should start with ending tax shelters in the form… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. At 27 I helped save the last… — Michael Shellenberger Action Copy Share Image
Nuclear is just a huge part of moving towards a cleaner electrical system. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing. — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
The nature of nuclear weapons makes it impossible to either ban the bomb or wipe out an enemy's arsenal. Nuclear deterrence was… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
It's when the conservationists became environmentalists that everything went bad. It stopped being about the environment. It became about controlling society. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
If solar and wind farms are needed to protect the natural environment, why do they so often destroy it? — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Both solar and wind produce too much energy when societies don't need it, and not enough when they do. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
The underlying problem with solar and wind is that they are too unreliable and energy-dilute. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Privately, many climate and energy experts admit that the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to decarbonize energy supplies is with nuclear power. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
The producers of 'Chernobyl' should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power. — Michael Shellenberger Accident Copy Share Image
The reason renewables can't power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought… — Michael Shellenberger Civilization Copy Share Image
The idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Voters must feel that that the burden of new housing is being shared equally and not falling disproportionately on any one group. — Michael Shellenberger Being Copy Share Image
