Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Nuclear is just a huge part of moving towards a cleaner electrical system. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
The main problem with biofuels - the land required - stems from their low power density. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
The flip side of renewables' low energy density is their low return on energy invested. — Michael Shellenberger 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 Copy Share Image
There are major groups, including the Sierra Club, that support efforts to deprive poor countries of energy. — 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 Copy Share Image
When climate goes away as an apocalyptic concern, something else will emerge. No doubt about it. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Most people think of solar and wind as new energy sources. In fact, they are two of our oldest. — Michael Shellenberger 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
We should be concerned about the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, without question. There is nothing automatic about adaptation. But… — Michael Shellenberger 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 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 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
Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
If you care about the environment, you want food and energy production to become more efficient and centralized. You want to put… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Why are the people who are most alarmist about climate change so opposed to the technologies that are solving it? One possibility… — Michael Shellenberger 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 Copy Share Image
The underlying problem with solar and wind is that they are too unreliable and energy-dilute. — Michael Shellenberger 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 Copy Share Image
If solar and wind farms are needed to protect the natural environment, why do they so often destroy it? — 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy. — Michael Shellenberger 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
The burden of higher cost electricity and benefits of renewable energy subsidies fall unevenly on Californians. — Michael Shellenberger 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 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 Copy Share Image
For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.' — Michael Shellenberger 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 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 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 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 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 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
I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage… — Michael Shellenberger 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. The evidence… — Michael Shellenberger 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
Reporters have an obligation to report accurately and fairly on all issues they cover, especially ones as important as energy and the environment. — 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 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 climate change… — Michael Shellenberger 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 were able… — 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 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 in the… — Michael Shellenberger 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 in the… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Hawks and doves have long found common ground opposing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
