The underlying problem with solar and wind is that they are too unreliable and energy-dilute. — 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
Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil. — 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
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
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
