Michael Shellenberger

The flip side of renewables' low energy density is their low return on energy invested.

— Michael Shellenberger

The main problem with biofuels - the land required - stems from their low power density.

— Michael Shellenberger

In truth, humankind has never been at risk of running out of energy.

— Michael Shellenberger

You cannot power the world on wind and solar.

— Michael Shellenberger

Homelessness has become a human rights crisis.

— Michael Shellenberger

Some amount of fear of nuclear weapons is necessary for nuclear deterrence to work.

— Michael Shellenberger

Making anything more labor-intensive makes it more expensive.

— Michael Shellenberger

The Amazon uses as much oxygen as it produces.

— Michael Shellenberger

Privately, many climate and energy experts admit that the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to decarbonize energy supplies is with nuclear power.

— Michael Shellenberger

Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy.

— Michael Shellenberger

The producers of 'Chernobyl' should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power.

— Michael Shellenberger

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

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

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

If solar and wind farms are needed to protect the natural environment, why do they so often destroy it?

— Michael Shellenberger

It's when the conservationists became environmentalists that everything went bad. It stopped being about the environment. It became about controlling society.

— Michael Shellenberger

In reality, Chernobyl proves why nuclear is the safest way to make electricity. In the worst nuclear power accidents, relatively small amounts…

— Michael Shellenberger

Before progressives were apocalyptic about climate change they were apocalyptic about nuclear energy. Then, after the Cold War ended, and the threat…

— Michael Shellenberger

It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies…

— Michael Shellenberger

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

The value of solar and wind decline in economic value as they become larger shares of the electricity grid for physical reasons.…

— Michael Shellenberger

Trump gives progressives a way to channel whatever guilt they might have - whether from preventing homebuilding, benefitting from unfair taxes and…

— Michael Shellenberger

Dealing with environmental lawsuits and grassroots resistance is expensive. Industrial wind and solar developers have to hire lawyers, public relations specialists, and…

— Michael Shellenberger

Chernobyl' is supposedly about the lies, arrogance, and suppression of criticism under Communism, but the mini-series portrays life in the Soviet Union…

— Michael Shellenberger

Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil.

— Michael Shellenberger

Cold white wine is so good with fatty, fried food.

— Michael Shellenberger

Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality.

— Michael Shellenberger

Nuclear is just a huge part of moving towards a cleaner electrical system.

— Michael Shellenberger

Both solar and wind produce too much energy when societies don't need it, and not enough when they do.

— Michael Shellenberger

The underlying problem with solar and wind is that they are too unreliable and energy-dilute.

— Michael Shellenberger

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

If you want to save the natural environment, you just use nuclear. You grow more food on less land, and people live…

— Michael Shellenberger

Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing.

— Michael Shellenberger

For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'

— Michael Shellenberger

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

Hawks and doves have long found common ground opposing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states.

— Michael Shellenberger

The renewable industry claims technical innovations will improve solar and wind - but in reality nothing can change the lower power density…

— Michael Shellenberger

Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from…

— Michael Shellenberger

The burden of higher cost electricity and benefits of renewable energy subsidies fall unevenly on Californians.

— Michael Shellenberger

Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism…

— Michael Shellenberger