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- Shellenberger disagrees with most environmentalists over impending threats and the best policies for addressing them. He argues that global warming is "not the end of the world," and that GMO, industrial agriculture, fracking, and nuclear power are important tools in protecting the environment.
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Though he had almost no profile in Australia before the piece, Shellenberger has been a contrarian voice on environmental issues and a critic of aspects of environmentalism for more than 15...
Oct 6, 2020 · MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER WANTS US to believe environmentalists are impeding our ability to solve environmental problems. This has long been the position of Bay Area ecomodernists,...
- The Controversy
- Claims Related to Extinction
- Claims About Land Use, Conservation, and Food
- Claims Related to Natural Disasters
- Claims About Carbon Emissions
- A Commitment to Accuracy
From a fact-checking standpoint, much of the controversy comes from Shellenberger’s view that critics have attacked implications of his article that he never stated while ignoring the somewhat more nuanced arguments presented in "Apocalypse Never." Shellenberger’s book is an argument in favor of the specific form of environmental policy known as ec...
Shellenberger’s focus on extinctions and biodiversity is part of an argument that economic development, rather than restrictive policies advocated by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in developing nations, is the key to conservation. The Environmental Progress website statesthat, "The world is not in the midst of a sixth mass-extinction, but w...
A large part of Shellenberger’s philosophy includes optimism in technology’s ability to lift populations out of poverty — specifically in the area of farming and food production. On Environmental Progress’ website, high-tech industrial farming is presentedas a solution to habitat loss and carbon emissions: "highly intensive industrial meat farming ...
Many of the statements in the Forbes apology related to natural disasters are responses either to media coverage of the 2019 wildfire season specifically, or of IPCC reports released in 2018 and 2019. In "Apocalypse Never," Shellenberger writes that these reports "warned of .. dire consequences: worsening natural disasters, sea-level rise, desertif...
Shellenberger’s claims related to carbon emissions form part of the argument, as presentedon Environmental Progress’ website, that "because wealthier nations are more resilient and more capable of adaptation, our goal should be to reduce emissions over the next century and keep temperatures as low as possible without undermining economic developmen...
In "Apocalypse Never," Shellenberger dismisses climate alarmism as an anti-scientific "religion." He accuses the movement of using exaggeration to promote a political agenda. In testimonybefore the U.S. House Committee On Science, Space, and Technology, Shellenberger said, "It is a peculiar feature of climate policy that its advocates feel the need...
Shellenberger disagrees with most environmentalists over impending threats and the best policies for addressing them. [3] [4] [5] He argues that global warming is "not the end of the world," [5] and that GMO, industrial agriculture, fracking, and nuclear power are important tools in protecting the environment. [4]
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Advertisement. Beyond Mother Nature. Share full article. By Matthew Yglesias. Jan. 13, 2008. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger’s 2004 essay “The Death of Environmentalism” sparked...
Jul 26, 2020 · More. Author Michael Shellenberger, who’s head of the research and policy group Environmental Progress, argues in a Hill.TV interview that climate change is not the most pressing environmental...
Oct 19, 2023 · In addition to writing about climate change, Shellenberger also writes about homelessness, addiction, and California’s forest fires. In this wide-ranging interview with CEO Jennifer Grossman, Shellenberger shares his views on socialism, environmentalism, Venezuela, homelessness, and Greta Thunberg.
