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Michael D. Shellenberger (born June 16, 1971) is an American author and journalist who writes on a wide range of topics including free speech, homelessness, and the environment. He is the first endowed professor at the University of Austin , serving as CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech. [ 1 ]
In June 2020, Shellenberger published Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, in which the author argues that climate change is not the existential threat it is portrayed to be in popular media and activism. Rather, he posits that technological innovation, if allowed to continue and grow, will remedy environmental issues.
A Berkeley resident and founder of the advocacy group Environmental Progress, Shellenberger has authored two books that aim to puncture left-leaning pieties from the perspective of a moderate ...
The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center located in Berkeley, California.Founded in 2007 by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, [5] The institute is aligned with ecomodernist philosophy.
Several reviewers have criticized Shellenberger's views on the causes of homelessness [4] and raised issues with where the book casts blame. [5] [6]Benjamin Schneider, writing in the San Francisco Examiner, described the book's thesis as "[P]rogressives have embraced 'victimology,' a belief system wherein society’s downtrodden are subject to no rules or consequences for their actions.
Ted Nordhaus (born 1965) is an American author and the director of research at The Breakthrough Institute.He has co-edited and written a number of books, including Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (2007) and An Ecomodernist Manifesto (2015) with collaborator Michael Shellenberger.
Shellenberger is a surname of German origin. Its German spelling is Schellenberger. Notable people with the surname include: Allen Shellenberger (1969–2009), American rock drummer; Betty Shellenberger (1921–2019), American field hockey player and coach; John S. Shellenberger (1839–1911), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
The first half of Break Through is a criticism of the green "politics of limits". The book begins with the birth of environmentalism. Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue that environmentalism in the U.S. emerged from post-war affluence, which they argue is a clue to understanding how ecological movements might emerge in places like China and India.