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There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Civilization
#Energy
#Human
#Power
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies were able to undermine pagan morality and the ancient institution of slavery.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Capitalism
#Morality
#More
#Need
#Rise
Dealing with environmental lawsuits and grassroots resistance is expensive. Industrial wind and solar developers have to hire lawyers, public relations specialists, and scientists willing to testify that this or that project poses only a modest threat to endangered birds and bats.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Environmental
#Lawyers
#Project
#Wind
For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'
- Michael Shellenberger
#Change
#Civilization
#Crisis
#Human
At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution. At 23 I raised money for Guatemalan women's cooperatives. In my early 20s I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions. At 26 I helped expose poor conditions at Nike factories in Asia.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Fighting
#Money
#Poor
#Research
#Women
Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment. Nothing else - not coal, not solar, not geo-engineering - can do that.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Environment
#Nothing
#Poverty
#Solar
Homelessness has become a human rights crisis.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Crisis
#Human Rights
#Human
#Rights
Less land is being converted into agriculture globally in part because farmers are growing more food on less land.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Agriculture
#Farmers
#Food
#Land
#More
Recognizing nuclear as renewable, and saving Diablo Canyon, would be a bold move for Governor Newsom. It would upset his traditional anti-nuclear environmental allies.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Bold
#Environmental
#Governor
#Upset
Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism at legacy publications.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Environmental
#Journalism
#Social Media
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, among many others.
- Michael Shellenberger
#American
#Bald
#Energy
#Golden
#Wind
Before progressives were apocalyptic about climate change they were apocalyptic about nuclear energy. Then, after the Cold War ended, and the threat of nuclear war declined radically, they found a new vehicle for their secular apocalypse in the form of climate change.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Change
#Climate
#Energy
#New
#War
All renewables thus require a material throughput - from mining to processing to installing to disposing of the materials later as waste - that is orders of magnitude larger than for non-renewable energy sources.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Energy
#Later
#Materials
#Mining
#Waste
Hawks and doves have long found common ground opposing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Common
#Ground
#Long
#Nuclear Weapons
Now that Europe has developed through deforestation and fossil fuel use it is telling Brazil not to develop through deforestation and fossil fuel use. Bolsonaro is the backlash against such hypocrisy.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Deforestation
#Europe
#Hypocrisy
#Now
Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Coal
#Gas
#Oil
#Solar
#Wind
YIMBYs should embrace a housing reform agenda broader than increasing urban density. This should start with ending tax shelters in the form of land conservation easements to cattle ranches and farms that abut suburbs. This would create an incentive for landowners convert them either to new housing subdivisions or to genuinely new natural areas.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Create
#Ending
#Housing
#New
#Start
Hydroelectric dams remain the way many poor countries gain access to reliable electricity, and both solar and wind might be worthwhile in some circumstances. But there is nothing in either their history or their physical attributes that suggests solar and wind in particular could or should be the centerpiece of efforts to deal with climate change.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Change
#Electricity
#History
#Way
#Wind
The main problem with biofuels - the land required - stems from their low power density.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Density
#Land
#Low
#Power
#Problem
Trump gives progressives a way to channel whatever guilt they might have - whether from preventing homebuilding, benefitting from unfair taxes and pensions, or depriving black and Latino students the teacher quality and school funding they need - into a sanctimonious tribal rage against Republican racism.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Black
#Guilt
#Quality
#School
#Teacher
In reality, Chernobyl proves why nuclear is the safest way to make electricity. In the worst nuclear power accidents, relatively small amounts of particulate matter escape, harming only a handful of people.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Electricity
#Escape
#Power
#Reality
#Way
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
#Done
#Energy
#Fossil Fuels
#Help
#Power
We have good examples of successful adaptation to rising sea levels. The Netherlands became a wealthy nation despite having one-third of its landmass below sea level, including areas a full 7m below sea level, as a result of the gradual sinking of its landscapes.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Good
#Nation
#Result
#Rising
#Sea
Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Hypocrisy
#People
#Power
#Rules
#Way
Humankind has never transitioned to energy sources that are more costly, less reliable, and have a larger environmental footprint than the incumbent - and yet that's precisely what adding large amounts of solar and wind to the grid requires.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Energy
#Environmental
#More
#Never
#Wind
Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities increases the cost of generating electricity, locks in fossil fuels, and increases the environmental footprint of energy production.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Electricity
#Energy
#Environmental
#Wind
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
#Environmental
#Serious
#World
I believe Forbes is an important outlet for broadening environmental journalism beyond the overwhelmingly alarmist approach taken by most reporters, and look forward to contributing heterodoxical pieces on energy and the environment in the future.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Environmental
#Future
#Journalism
#Look
Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Energy
#Environmental
#Ideas
#Out
#World
Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.
- Michael Shellenberger
#Environmental
#Fear
#Problems
#Value
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