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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 ]
Founded in 2007 by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, [5] The institute is aligned with ecomodernist philosophy. [6] [7] The Institute advocates for an embrace of modernization and technological development (including nuclear power and carbon capture) in order to address environmental challenges. Proposing urbanization, agricultural ...
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.
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 ...
— 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.
Journalists and writers who have written for The Free Press include Emily Yoffe, [1] Michael Shellenberger, [1] and Joe Nocera. Regular contributors include Douglas Murray and Vinay Prasad. [citation needed] In January 2024, The Free Press released a documentary called "American Miseducation."
The Twitter Files are a series of releases of select internal Twitter, Inc. documents published from December 2022 through March 2023 on Twitter.CEO Elon Musk gave the documents to journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Lee Fang, and authors Michael Shellenberger, David Zweig and Alex Berenson shortly after he acquired Twitter on October 27, 2022.