If you care about the environment, you want food and energy production to become more efficient and centralized. You want to put less inputs in and get more outputs out and get less waste. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. At 27 I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California. In my 30s I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $90 billion into them. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
The rapidly spinning blades of wind turbines act like an apex predator that big birds never evolved to deal with. And because big birds have much lower reproductive rates than small birds, their deaths have a far greater impact on the overall population of the species. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
The renewable industry claims technical innovations will improve solar and wind – but in reality nothing can change the lower power density of sunlight and wind. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Reporters have an obligation to report accurately and fairly on all issues they cover, especially ones as important as energy and the environment. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote
Both solar and wind produce too much energy when societies don’t need it, and not enough when they do. Michael Shellenberger Read Quote