Peter Gleick claims, “if Malthusians are wrong, all they would have done is made the world a better place.” But in Apocalypse Never I show that, for Malthusians, making the world a “better place” has meant letting the poor starve, keeping poor nations dependent on wood fuel, and diverting World Bank funding from dams, roads, and fertilizer for development to charitable endeavors like solar panels for rural villagers aimed at making poverty sustainable.
Read MoreI am writing to express my concern over my interaction with members of the Democratic caucus during yesterday’s hearing on “Solving the Climate Crisis” by the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. I was called to testify as an expert witness. Two members of your caucus, Congressman Jared Huffman and Congressman Sean Casten, publicly impugned my motives. Chairwoman Castor then denied me an opportunity to defend myself and instead gaveled the hearing to a close.
Read MoreEP President Michael Shellenberger speaks with Sydney Morning Herald National Climate and Environment Editor Nick O’Malley about why climate change is not making disasters worse and other topics
Read MoreI am writing to inform you that Facebook has inappropriately censored a scientifically accurate article that I wrote and Zero Hedge, Quillette, Environmental Progress, and other web sites reprinted.
I am formally requesting an investigation of this action by Facebook. Climate Feedback got it wrong, and thus Facebook got it wrong.
Many people only get their news from Facebook, which exercises extraordinary market power, and power over how people decide what is true and false. I am confident that you take your extraordinary powers extremely seriously.
Read MoreAn organization calling itself “Climate Feedback” is falsely claiming that humankind is causing a “Sixth Mass Extinction” and unscientifically confusing “disasters” with weather events:
Read MoreClimate change is real, but it’s not the end of the world. It’s not even our most important environmental problem.
Read MoreOn June 30, HarperCollins will publish Michael Shellenberger’s Apocalypse Never, which has received strong pre-publication reviews from scientists and scholars who represent a wide diversity of disciplines and viewpoints.
Read MoreThe Executive Director of United Nations Environment Program argues that coronavirus pandemic is a consequence of the breakdown of humankind’s relationship with nature. “We have ignored the balance of nature’s web for far too long, and we are now seeing the impacts of our actions.”
Read MoreShould we farm wild animals to prevent disease pandemics? Do we need more intensified agriculture, or less?
Read MoreDo we need more or less intensified farming to prevent future pandemics?
Read MoreThe positive, peaceful, and humanistic “Stand Up for Nuclear” events last Sunday stood in contrast to the violent protests by apocalyptic Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who blocked the London subway system three days earlier.
Read MoreAn Interview with Earth Innovation Founder, Dan Nepstad
Read MoreThank you for all of your help making Environmental Progress’s third year (!) a huge success!
Can you believe all that EP and the pro-nuclear movement accomplished in 2018?
Read MoreWe are writing as scientists, scholars, and concerned citizens to warn you of a persistent anti-nuclear bias in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on keeping global temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
Read MoreNuclear power is in trouble. What should be done? The conventional wisdom holds that a techno-fix, like a radically new design, or new construction techniques, will save nuclear. But such a view assumes that nuclear’s underlying problems are technical. They’re not. Public acceptance remains the main obstacle to the future of nuclear. How can public acceptance be addressed? And what role in particular might women have to play? In this talk to Women in Nuclear, Canada, EP President Michael Shellenberger offers suggestions.
Read MoreChinese translation of Forbes article, “Taiwanese Government Sparks Hunger Strike After Rejecting Signatures For Pro-Nuclear Referendum”
Read MoreFriends!
I’m very happy to invite you to attend a historic, pro-nuclear power demonstration in Munich, Germany, on Sunday, October 21, from 10 am to 4 pm!
The official name of the event is the “Nuclear Pride Fest,” and its founding purpose is to save and expand nuclear energy in Europe. The Fest will be held in Marienplatz, Munich’s central plaza.
Read MoreVipin Narang of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology describes why nations pursue nuclear power as a weapons option, how North Korea provides a “blueprint” for building a weapon, and why the use of a nuclear weapon is unlikely to escalate into a full-scale war.
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