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 Read Quote
The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought they could. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Hypocrisy demonstrates how unaccountable one is to conventional morality. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
In many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
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 Read Quote
While some wars are planned, others result from each side retaliating in ways it views as proportionate but viewed by the other side as disproportionate. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
The nature of nuclear weapons makes it impossible to either ban the bomb or wipe out an enemy’s arsenal. Nuclear deterrence was unavoidable. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Hawks and doves have long found common ground opposing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Some amount of fear of nuclear weapons is necessary for nuclear deterrence to work. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
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 Read Quote