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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.
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.
Shellenberger, an author who was a registered Democrat until last year, faces an uphill campaign in California's nonpartisan, top-two primary system. Why Michael Shellenberger, A Centrist, Is ...
“That’s disinformation,” independent Substack journalist Michael Shellenberger fired back to the Gray Lady’s editors. “What Biden said is clear from the video. And now the White House ...
Twitter Files authors Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified before the committee on March 9, 2023. [36] Both Taibbi and Schellenberger shared documents highlighting a range of concerns, from the White House pushing Twitter to censor Harvard epidemiologist Dr. Martin Kulldorf , to FBI officials urging suppression of the Hunter Biden ...
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 3, 2024. Musk has portrayed himself as a bulwark against the collapse of Western civilization brought on by people like de Moraes.
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.