For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.' — 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
Making anything more labor-intensive makes it more expensive. — Michael Shellenberger Anything 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
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 Energy 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
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
It's when the conservationists became environmentalists that everything went bad. It stopped being about the environment. It became about controlling society. — Michael Shellenberger Bad Copy Share Image
In many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome. — Michael Shellenberger Bats 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 Electricity Copy Share Image
In truth, humankind has never been at risk of running out of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Energy 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 Energy 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 Change Copy Share Image
Allowing for suburbanization of California's ranches and farmlands would still allow for strong protections of California's truly natural areas like Yosemite, the… — Michael Shellenberger California 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 Blame Copy Share Image
The nature of nuclear weapons makes it impossible to either ban the bomb or wipe out an enemy's arsenal. Nuclear deterrence was… — Michael Shellenberger Bomb 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 Air 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 Always Copy Share Image
YIMBYs should embrace a housing reform agenda broader than increasing urban density. This should start with ending tax shelters in the form… — Michael Shellenberger Create 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 idea that we're going to replace oil and natural gas with solar and wind, and nothing else, is a hallucinatory delusion. — Michael Shellenberger Gas 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 American 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 Big Copy Share Image
The main problem with biofuels - the land required - stems from their low power density. — Michael Shellenberger Land Copy Share Image
