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
The producers of 'Chernobyl' should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power. — Michael Shellenberger 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 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
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
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 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
In reality, Chernobyl proves why nuclear is the safest way to make electricity. In the worst nuclear power accidents, relatively small amounts… — 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
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
The main problem with biofuels - the land required - stems from their low power density. — 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
