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Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger · 28 Jun 2020

/en/#data/RL. 10. Jane Brody, “Concern for the Rainforest Has Begun to Blossom,” New York Times, October 13, 1987, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com. 11. Michael Shellenberger, “An Interview with Founder of Earth Innovation, Dan Nepstad,” Environmental Progress, August 25, 2019, http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2019/8/29/an-interview-with

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dos Focos Ativos por Países,” Queimadas Instituto Nacional De Pesquisas Espaciais, January 1, 2020, http://queimadas.dgi.inpe.br/queimadas/portal-static/estatisticas_paises. 19. Michael Shellenberger, “An Interview with Founder of Earth Innovation, Dan Nepstad,” Environmental Progress, August 25, 2019, http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2019/8/29/an-interview-with

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the wild, to be tamed or eliminated, the domestic, to be exploited for useful purposes, and the pet, to be cherished for emotional satisfaction.” 48. Michael Shellenberger, “An Interview with Founder of Earth Innovation, Dan Nepstad,” Environmental Progress, August 25, 2019, http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2019/8/29/an-interview-with

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-innovation-dan-nepstad. 49. “Brazil and the Amazon Forest,” Greenpeace, accessed January 20, 2020, https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/issues/brazil-and-the-amazon-forest. Michael Shellenberger, “An Interview with Founder of Earth Innovation, Dan Nepstad,” Environmental Progress, August 25, 2019, http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2019/8/29/an-interview-with

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-founder-of-earth-innovation-dan-nepstad. 50. Michael Shellenberger, “An Interview with Founder of Earth Innovation, Dan Nepstad.” 51. Ibid. 52. John Briscoe, “Infrastructure First? Water Policy, Wealth, and Well-Being,” Belfer Center, January

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Policy, Wealth, and Well-Being.” 55. Rhett Butler, “Greenpeace Accuses McDonald’s of Destroying the Amazon,” Mongabay, April 7, 2006, https://news.mongabay.com. 56. Michael Shellenberger, “An Interview with Founder of Earth Innovation, Dan Nepstad.” 57. Ibid. 58. Ibid. 59. Ibid. 60. Ibid. 61. Ibid. 62. David P. Edwards et al

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Palm Plantations Fail to Protect Biodiversity Effectively,” Conservation Letters 3 (2010): 236–42, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00107.x. 63. Michael Shellenberger, “An Interview with Founder of Earth Innovation, Dan Nepstad.” 64. Dave Keating, “Macron’s Mercosur Veto—Are Amazon Fires Being Used as a Smokescreen for

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National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, no. 46 (November 2010): 19667–72, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0912890107. 72. Michael Shellenberger, “An Interview with Founder of Earth Innovation, Dan Nepstad.” 73. Juliana Gil, Rachael Garrett, and Thomas Berger, “Determinants of Crop-Livestock Integration in Brazil: Evidence

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Rwandan conflict. Doing my PhD I came to the conclusion that both aspects are at play, but the causes of the conflict stem from grievances.” Michael Shellenberger, “Violence, the Virungas, and Gorillas: An Interview with Conservationist Helga Rainer,” Breakthrough Institute, November 20, 2014, https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/conservation/violence-the-virungas-and

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author, February 5, 2015. 46. Plumptre et al., “The Socio-economic Status of People Living near Protected Areas in the Central Albertine Rift,” 98. 47. Michael Shellenberger, “Postcolonial Gorilla Conservation: An Interview with Ecologist Sarah Sawyer,” Breakthrough Institute, November 19, 2014, https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/conservation/postcolonial-gorilla-conservation. 48. Ibid. 49

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Uganda/Rwanda,” Kisoro Tours Uganda, https://kisorotoursuganda.com/2019-2020-gorilla-tracking-permit-availability-uganda-rwanda. Uganda remains a relative bargain at just $600. 51. Michael Shellenberger, “Postcolonial Gorilla Conservation: An Interview with Ecologist Sarah Sawyer,” https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/conservation/violence-the-virungas-and-gorillas. 52. Plumptre et al., “The Socio

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5, 2015. 54. Andrew Plumptre (senior scientist, Africa Program, Wildlife Conservation Society) in discussion with the author, February 10, 2015, and November 6, 2019. 55. Michael Shellenberger, “Violence, the Virungas, and Gorillas: An Interview with Conservationist Helga Rainer.” 56. Andrew Plumptre et al., “The Socio-economic Status of People Living near Protected

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Areas in the Central Albertine Rift,” 25. 57. Michael Shellenberger, “Postcolonial Gorilla Conservation: An Interview with Ecologist Sarah Sawyer.” 58. Andrew Plumptre (senior scientist, Africa Program, Wildlife Conservation Society) in discussion with the author, February

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.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=ID. 52. Art Kleiner, “The Man Who Saw the Future,” Strategy + Business, February 12, 2003, https://www.strategy-business.com. 53. Michael Shellenberger, “Leapfrog or Backfire?” interview with Arthur van Benthem, The Breakthrough Institute, November 18, 2014, https://thebreakthrough.org. 54. Ibid. 55. Ibid. 56. Ibid. 57. Roger

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Saved the Whales? An Economic Analysis of 20th Century Whaling.” 37. Davis et al., In Pursuit of Leviathan, 512. 38. Linus Blomqvist, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger, Nature Unbound: Decoupling for Conservation, The Breakthrough Institute, 2015, accessed December 5, 2019, 29, https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads.thebreakthrough.org/legacy

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21, 2013, https://www.greenbiz.com. 91. Alister Doyle, “Mangroves under threat from shrimp farms: UN,” Reuters, November 14, 2012, https://www.reuters.com. 92. Michael Shellenberger, “Victory for Frankenfish and for Mother Earth,” USA Today, November 19, 2015, https://www.usatoday.com. 93. Ibid. 94. AquaBounty, “Ask your supermarket to stock

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-Moving-Forward/Air-Pollutants. 81. Czerwinski, “Nuclear Power Archive.” 82. Wyndle Watson, “Shippingport Plant Gets Up-and-Atom Backing,” Pittsburgh Press, May 26, 1970. 83. Michael Shellenberger, “Why the War on Nuclear Threatens Us All,” Environmental Progress, March 28, 2017, http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/3/28/why-the-war-on

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-interest. As of early 2020, the composition of the board of directors of the Sierra Club foundation had changed. 27. Michael Shellenberger, “Environmental Defense Fund,” Environmental Progress, 2018, http://environmentalprogress.org/edf. 28. Michael Shellenberger, “NRDC,” Environmental Progress, April 4, 2018, http://environmentalprogress.org/nrdc. 29. Clayton Aldern, “Looking for a Fossil-Free Investment

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revenue in 2018 and had just shy of $1 million assets, while the Heartland Institute had revenues of $6 million ($1.5 million in assets). Michael Shellenberger, “Exxon,” Environmental Progress, April 2020, http://environmentalprogress.org/exxon. 35. The Heritage Foundation, “2018 Financial Statements,” December 31, 2018, https://thf-reports.s3.amazonaws.com

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Report,” https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/cato-annual-report-2018.pdf. 38. Steven F. Hayward, Mark Muro, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger, Post-partisan Power, AEI, Brookings, and Breakthrough Institute, 2010, https://www.politico.com/pdf/PPM170_post-partisan_power-1.pdf, 8. Alex Brill and Alex

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, https://www.ted.com/talks/john_doerr_salvation_and_profit_in_greentech/transcript?language=en. 85. Michael Shellenberger and Adam Werbach, “It’s the Oil Economy, Stupid,” SF Gate, March 10, 2003, https://www.sfgate.com. 86. Michael Shellenberger et al., “Beyond Boom and Bust: Putting Clean Tech On a Path To Subsidy Independence

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./Alamy Stock Photo) Mamy Bernadette Semutaga near Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the day after baboons ate her sweet potatoes. (Michael Shellenberger) What most determines how much plastic waste goes into the ocean is whether a nation has a waste collection and management system. Developed nations like

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age of seventeen to work in factories in the city. Even when life was hard, she didn’t want to go back to farm life. (Michael Shellenberger) In poor nations like Congo, women and girls complain more of the time they have to spend chopping, hauling, and burning wood than they do

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of the smoke it emits. (Michael Shellenberger) Temple Grandin says her autism made her more empathetic to stresses of farm animals. McDonald’s Corporation and others have adopted her methods for raising

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) Caleb with Daniel at the Virunga dam, which was built to support economic development and reduce the threat to mountain gorillas from wood-fuel use. (Michael Shellenberger) In 2014, White House science advisor John Holdren claimed Roger Pielke, Jr., had misled Congress. One year later, Representative Raúl Grijalva from Arizona announced an

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. People protect endangered species like mountain gorillas not because human civilization depends on them but rather because of their spiritual and aesthetic value. (Michael Shellenberger) About the Author MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER is a Time magazine “Hero of the Environment”; the winner of the 2008 Green Book Award from the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Center

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, an independent, nonpartisan research organization based in Berkeley, California. Discover great authors, exclusive offers, and more at hc.com. Copyright APOCALYPSE NEVER. Copyright © 2020 by Michael Shellenberger. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to

Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists

by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus · 10 Mar 2009 · 454pp · 107,163 words

Politics of Possibility Status and Security Belonging and Fulfillment Pragmatism Greatness In Gratitude Notes Bibliography Index Connect with HMH Copyright © 2007 by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger ALL RIGHTS RESERVED For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to trade.permissions@hmhco.com or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: Nordhaus, Ted. Break through: from the death of environmentalism to the politics of possibility / Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-618-65825-1 ISBN-10: 0-618-65825-4 1. Environmentalism—Political aspects—United

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

by Michael Shellenberger · 11 Oct 2021 · 572pp · 124,222 words

16: Love Bombing 17: “It’s a Leadership Problem” 18: Responsibility First 19: Civilization’s End Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index About the Author Also by Michael Shellenberger Copyright About the Publisher Introduction When I first heard last June that a group of people had taken over a neighborhood in downtown Seattle, ostensibly

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Look Across MSAs,” Urban Institute, June 2019, www.urban.org. 8. “Tokyo,” Atlas of Urban Expansion, accessed April 3, 2021, www.atlasofurbanexpansion.org, cited in Michael Shellenberger, “Dear Fellow YIMBYs: Yes, Urban Density Is Wonderful. But We Also Need More Suburbs,” Forbes, April 13, 2018, www.forbes.com. 9. Shellenberger, “Dear Fellow

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of Land Trusts, accessed April 3, 2021, www.calandtrusts.org; “Conservation Easements,” Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, accessed April 3, 2021, www.cmap.illinois.gov; Michael Shellenberger, “California in Danger: Why the Dream Is Dying and How We Can Save It,” Environmental Progress, February 14, 2018, www.environmentalprogress.org. 11. “The Measure

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. 15. Christopher Herring, interviews by the author, December 14, 2020, and February 17, 2021. 16. Susan Partovi, interview by the author, January 10, 2021. 17. Michael Shellenberger, “California Homelessness Survey 2021,” Google Surveys. Full results can be found at https://surveys.google.com/reporting/survey?utm_source=google&utm_medium=email&utm

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, 114, 116, 155–156, 159–160, 265–266, 268 Zimmerman, Bill, 64–65, 80–81, 85 Zimring, Frank, 171–172, 199–200 About the Author MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER is the nationally bestselling author of Apocalypse Never, a Time magazine “Hero of the Environment,” the winner of the 2008 Green Book Award from the

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research organization based in Berkeley, California. Discover great authors, exclusive offers, and more at hc.com. Also by Michael Shellenberger Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All Copyright san fransicko. Copyright © 2021 by Michael Shellenberger. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words

Jackson, Lawrence Krauss, Branko Milanović, Robert Muggah, Jason Nemirow, Matthew Nock, Ted Nordhaus, Anthony Pagden, Robert Pinker, Susan Pinker, Stephen Radelet, Peter Scoblic, Martin Seligman, Michael Shellenberger, and Christian Welzel. Other friends and colleagues answered questions or made important suggestions, including Charleen Adams, Rosalind Arden, Andrew Balmford, Nicolas Baumard, Brian Boutwell, Stewart

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an alternative approach to environmental protection has been championed by John Asafu-Adjaye, Jesse Ausubel, Andrew Balmford, Stewart Brand, Ruth DeFries, Nancy Knowlton, Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger, and others. It has been called Ecomodernism, Ecopragmatism, Earth Optimism, and the Blue-Green or Turquoise movement, though we can also think of it as

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. How the left came to reject cheap energy for the poor: The great progressive reversal, part two. The Breakthrough. http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/michael-shellenberger-and-ted-nordhaus/the-great-progressive-reversal. Nordhaus, W. 1974. Resources as a constraint on growth. American Economic Review, 64, 22–26. Nordhaus, W. 1996

More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next

by Andrew McAfee · 30 Sep 2019 · 372pp · 94,153 words

provide all the evidence one could need that nuclear power plants can’t be operated safely. As the environmental policy analyst and self-described “ecomodernist” Michael Shellenberger highlights, however, the evidence is strong that nuclear is actually the safest source of reliable energy. A study published in the Lancet in 2007 found

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Wilkinson, “Electricity Generation and Health,” Lancet 370, no. 9591 (September 15–21, 2007): 979–90. “Nobody died from radiation at Three Mile Island or Fukushima”: Michael Shellenberger, “If Nuclear Power Is So Safe, Why Are We So Afraid of It?,” Forbes, June 11, 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words

more full-throated endorsement of nuclear power with another article, coauthored with Spencer Reiss, that proclaimed “Nuclear Now!”[7] In 2003, two renegade environmental activists, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, had created the Breakthrough Institute to promote technological solutions to environmental problems, departing from the environmental movement’s opposition to nuclear power

The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power

by Keith Barnham · 7 May 2015 · 433pp · 124,454 words

oppose the solar revolution. Many people find the debate about energy options extremely confusing. Here is a typical argument from two commentators, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, in The Wall Street Journal on 22 May 2013. They are clearly sceptical about renewable energy and critical of two solar supporters, Robert F. Kennedy

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Energy Crisis, Portobello Books (2005). 5. Jeremy Leggett, The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance, Routledge (2014). 6. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, ‘Going Green? Then Go Nuclear’, Wall Street Journal, 22 May 2013, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB100014241278873237163045784826634914263 12, accessed 10 December 2013. 7. K

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are Thekeys to Sustainability

by David Owen · 16 Sep 2009 · 313pp · 92,907 words

, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic—were all parts of the Soviet empire and therefore look good for the same reason. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, in their 2007 book Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, write, “Germany and Britain have reduced their emissions, but

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to redwoods. We are all interconnected. We all share the same home. Displaying a BE GREEN sticker gives you this voice.” 48 Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007), pp. 113-14. 49 Doug Struck, “Canada Alters Course

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.com. 19 François Leydet, The Last Redwoods and the Parkland of Redwood Creek (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963), p. 132, quoted in Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007), p. 26. 20 Statistics from the National Park Service

Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History

by Ben Mezrich · 6 Nov 2023 · 279pp · 85,453 words

allowing misinformation to sway a presidential election. The back-and-forth between Yoel and his team, as revealed in another Twitter files drop by author Michael Shellenberger, included a mix of wanting to cover their own actions—or asses—and coming to what seemed to be the best conclusion at the time

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communication channels, were eventually curated and posted by a rogues’ gallery of well-known conservative and libertarian journalists, including Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, Michael Shellenberger, David Zweig, and Alex Berenson. The Files, dropped almost at random over the next few weeks, offered a deep look into Twitter 1.0’s

American Marxism

by Mark R. Levin · 12 Jul 2021 · 314pp · 88,524 words

’s climate policies resulted in a widespread blackout. Millions of its citizens had their electrical power cut off in the midst of a heat wave. Michael Shellenberger at Forbes explains: “[T]he underlying reasons that California… experience[ed] rolling black-outs for the second time in less than a year stem[s

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Free Beacon, March 31, 2021, https://freebeacon.com/policy/progressives-push-biden-to-include-10-trillion-climate-plan-in-infrastructure-package/ (April 10, 2021). 85 Michael Shellenberger, “Why California’s Climate Policies Are Causing Electricity Blackouts,” Forbes, August 15, 2020, https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/08/15/why-californias-climate