When climate goes away as an apocalyptic concern, something else will emerge. No doubt about it. — 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
Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party. — Michael Shellenberger Change 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
If you think modernity is mostly to blame for pollution, visit Africa where people still burn wood and dung as an energy… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
There are major groups, including the Sierra Club, that support efforts to deprive poor countries of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Climate change is happening. It's just not the end of the world. It's not even our most serious environmental problem. — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
While some wars are planned, others result from each side retaliating in ways it views as proportionate but viewed by the other… — Michael Shellenberger Disproportionate Copy Share Image
Humankind has never transitioned to energy sources that are more costly, less reliable, and have a larger environmental footprint than the incumbent… — Michael Shellenberger Climate 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 Copy Share Image
I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. At 27 I helped save the last… — Michael Shellenberger Action 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… — 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
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
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 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
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
Nobody is suggesting climate change won't negatively impact crop yields. It could. But such declines should be put in perspective. — Michael Shellenberger Change 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
Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment. Nothing else - not coal, not solar, not… — Michael Shellenberger Climate Copy Share Image
Recognizing nuclear as renewable, and saving Diablo Canyon, would be a bold move for Governor Newsom. It would upset his traditional anti-nuclear… — Michael Shellenberger Allies Copy Share Image
Voters must feel that that the burden of new housing is being shared equally and not falling disproportionately on any one group. — Michael Shellenberger Being 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… — Michael Shellenberger Energy Copy Share Image
In many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Most people think of solar and wind as new energy sources. In fact, they are two of our oldest. — 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
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
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
Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities… — Michael Shellenberger Climate 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.… — 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… — Michael Shellenberger Change 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 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
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
Hydroelectric dams remain the way many poor countries gain access to reliable electricity, and both solar and wind might be worthwhile in… — Michael Shellenberger Change Copy Share Image
We should be concerned about the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, without question. There is nothing automatic about adaptation. But… — Michael Shellenberger Adaptation 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
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
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
