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Michael D. Shellenberger (born June 16, 1971) ... In February 2016, Shellenberger left Breakthrough and founded Environmental Progress, [36] ...
In 2004, Breakthrough founders Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger coauthored the essay, “Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming Politics in a Post-Environmental World.” [35] The paper argued that environmentalism is incapable of dealing with climate change and should "die" so that a new politics can be born.
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 ...
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.
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.
The ensuing Twitter Files, reported by Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger, and others, revealed a pervasive pressure campaign on social media platforms to censor COVID-related content.
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.
The spat comes after documents published by “Twitter Files” journalist Michael Shellenberger alleged de Moraes sought to weaponize the platform’s content moderation policies against ...