Recognizing nuclear as renewable, and saving Diablo Canyon, would be a bold move for Governor Newsom. It would upset his traditional anti-nuclear… — Michael Shellenberger Allies Copy Share Image
In many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Reporters have an obligation to report accurately and fairly on all issues they cover, especially ones as important as energy and the… — Michael Shellenberger Energy Copy Share Image
Most people think of solar and wind as new energy sources. In fact, they are two of our oldest. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Nobody is suggesting climate change won't negatively impact crop yields. It could. But such declines should be put in perspective. — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land. — Michael Shellenberger Agriculture Copy Share Image
While some wars are planned, others result from each side retaliating in ways it views as proportionate but viewed by the other… — Michael Shellenberger Disproportionate Copy Share Image
Paid child care would make child care more efficient, allowing more children to be cared for by fewer adults, and thus free… — Michael Shellenberger Child care Copy Share Image
Trump gives progressives a way to channel whatever guilt they might have - whether from preventing homebuilding, benefitting from unfair taxes and… — Michael Shellenberger Guilt Copy Share Image
The value of solar and wind decline in economic value as they become larger shares of the electricity grid for physical reasons.… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Dealing with environmental lawsuits and grassroots resistance is expensive. Industrial wind and solar developers have to hire lawyers, public relations specialists, and… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
In reality, Chernobyl proves why nuclear is the safest way to make electricity. In the worst nuclear power accidents, relatively small amounts… — Michael Shellenberger Chernobyl Copy Share Image
Before progressives were apocalyptic about climate change they were apocalyptic about nuclear energy. Then, after the Cold War ended, and the threat… — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies… — Michael Shellenberger Capitalism Copy Share Image
I actually argue that renewables are worse than fossil fuels. It's a physical manifestation of lower power densities. More land, more materials,… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
All renewables thus require a material throughput - from mining to processing to installing to disposing of the materials later as waste… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment. Nothing else - not coal, not solar, not… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
There are major groups, including the Sierra Club, that support efforts to deprive poor countries of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Climate change is happening. It's just not the end of the world. It's not even our most serious environmental problem. — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism… — Michael Shellenberger Environmental Copy Share Image
When climate goes away as an apocalyptic concern, something else will emerge. No doubt about it. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party. — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
Environmentalism, apocalyptic environmentalism in particular, has become the dominant religion of supposedly secular people in the West. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
If you think modernity is mostly to blame for pollution, visit Africa where people still burn wood and dung as an energy… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Nuclear is the only energy source that has proven capable of fully replacing fossil fuels at low-cost in wealthy nations. While hydro-electric… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Wind energy threatens golden eagles, bald eagles, burrowing owls, red-tailed hawks, Swainson's hawks, American kestrels, white-tailed kites, peregrine falcons, and prairie falcons,… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
The rapidly spinning blades of wind turbines act like an apex predator that big birds never evolved to deal with. And because… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Now that Europe has developed through deforestation and fossil fuel use it is telling Brazil not to develop through deforestation and fossil… — Michael Shellenberger Brazil Copy Share Image
Normally skeptical journalists routinely give renewables a pass. The reason isn't because they don't know how to report critically on energy -… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce… — Michael Shellenberger Environmental Copy Share Image
At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution. At 23 I raised money for Guatemalan women's… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
We have good examples of successful adaptation to rising sea levels. The Netherlands became a wealthy nation despite having one-third of its… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Solar makes electricity expensive for two inherently physical reasons. Sunlight is dilute, requiring 10 to 15 times as much materials and mining,… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Nations are reorienting toward the national interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables.… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Renewables require the use of vastly more land, longer and less-utilized transmission lines, and large amounts of storage whether from lithium batteries,… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
There is good evidence that the catastrophist framing of climate change is self-defeating because it alienates and polarizes many people. And exaggerating… — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
The industrial revolution in England was only made possible through intensified agriculture and the use of coal for manufacturing, which delivered far… — Michael Shellenberger Agriculture Copy Share Image
Celebrities, whether from the world of entertainment or politics, moralize about the need to change individual consumption when they should be moralizing… — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
Hydroelectric dams remain the way many poor countries gain access to reliable electricity, and both solar and wind might be worthwhile in… — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
