Reporters have an obligation to report accurately and fairly on all issues they cover, especially ones as important as energy and the… — 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
If you look at all the energy that is used by an iPhone, not just to make it and to power it,… — Michael Shellenberger 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 Copy Share Image
The flip side of renewables' low energy density is their low return on energy invested. — 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
Most people think of solar and wind as new energy sources. In fact, they are two of our oldest. — 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
The value of solar and wind decline in economic value as they become larger shares of the electricity grid for physical reasons.… — 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
Before progressives were apocalyptic about climate change they were apocalyptic about nuclear energy. Then, after the Cold War ended, and the threat… — 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 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
I believe Forbes is an important outlet for broadening environmental journalism beyond the overwhelmingly alarmist approach taken by most reporters, and look… — 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
Celebrities, whether from the world of entertainment or politics, moralize about the need to change individual consumption when they should be moralizing… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
In truth, humankind has never been at risk of running out of energy. — 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 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
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
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 burden of higher cost electricity and benefits of renewable energy subsidies fall unevenly on Californians. — 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
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
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
