It's when the conservationists became environmentalists that everything went bad. It stopped being about the environment. It became about controlling society. — 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 Climate 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 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 Climate 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 Civilization Copy Share Image
The producers of 'Chernobyl' should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power. — Michael Shellenberger Accident Copy Share Image
Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Climate 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 care about the environment, you want food and energy production to become more efficient and centralized. You want to put… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Why are the people who are most alarmist about climate change so opposed to the technologies that are solving it? One possibility… — 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
If you look at all the energy that is used by an iPhone, not just to make it and to power it,… — Michael Shellenberger Energy Copy Share Image
At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution. At 23 I raised money for Guatemalan women's… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce… — Michael Shellenberger Environmental 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 Climate Copy Share Image
Now that Europe has developed through deforestation and fossil fuel use it is telling Brazil not to develop through deforestation and fossil… — Michael Shellenberger Brazil 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 Common people Copy Share Image
The burden of higher cost electricity and benefits of renewable energy subsidies fall unevenly on Californians. — Michael Shellenberger Californians 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 Climate 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
Hawks and doves have long found common ground opposing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states. — Michael Shellenberger Common ground Copy Share Image
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
Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing. — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
If you want to save the natural environment, you just use nuclear. You grow more food on less land, and people live… — Michael Shellenberger Environment 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 Climate 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 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
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 Climate 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 Climate 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 Climate Copy Share Image
We have good examples of successful adaptation to rising sea levels. The Netherlands became a wealthy nation despite having one-third of its… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Dealing with environmental lawsuits and grassroots resistance is expensive. Industrial wind and solar developers have to hire lawyers, public relations specialists, and… — Michael Shellenberger Climate 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 Climate 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
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 Climate 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… — Michael Shellenberger Capitalism 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 Change 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 Chernobyl Copy Share Image
Solar and wind advocates say cheaper solar panels and wind turbines will make the future growth in renewables cheaper than past growth… — 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… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
