Michael Shellenberger

Green Watch
Film Review of Juice: The Reliability Error
In his latest docuseries energy journalist Robert Bryce examines the dangerous destabilization of the American electricity grid due to flawed policy choices, such as an overreliance on unreliable, weather-dependent wind…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

Green Watch
Film Review of Juice: The Commodity Error
Electricity is our most important infrastructure, analogous to roads and bridges, but even more critical to survival. To take just one example, water treatment plants and water pumps need power,…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

Green Watch
Film Review of Juice: The Anti-Human League
The fatal myth driving these errors was that electricity customers wanted to be in a market where the objective was to purchase kilowatts. We didn’t. What we really have always…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

Green Watch
Film Review of Juice: Victory?
While not unequivocally declaring victory, Juice concluded on a high note, ticking off several important and recent wins for pro-nuclear advocates. Dr. Keefer and his allies recently persuaded the right-leaning…
by Ken Braun on July 15, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
Young John Brennan’s Own Russiagate
The origins of Russiagate have been coming into clearer focus over the last few weeks, thanks to collaboratively produced investigative reports from Public and Racket News. The revelations, relying on…
by Ken Braun on March 5, 2024

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #279: Environmentalist Potpourri
We’re trying something new for this week: A round-up of stories and discussions not long enough by themselves to carry a podcast, all put together. Joining me to discuss solar…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on July 28, 2023

Green Watch
Hey NPR: Why Are Environmentalists Opposing Nuclear Power?
This week NPR ran a report titled “Why Even Environmentalists Are Supporting Nuclear Power Today.” It gives deserved praise to advocates such as Michael Shellenberger and Mothers for Nuclear, following…
by Ken Braun on August 31, 2022

Green Watch
Book Review: Fossil Future
Environmentalism has always offered a dark vision of our future—either return to the Stone Age or go extinct—but many Americans are only now wising up to its anti-human streak, thanks…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 21, 2022

Organization Trends
Woke Mental Health
Wokeism has started leeching into the mental health professions, blurring the lines between treating people and enabling them. In fact, the culture of woke in academia is referred to as…
by Katie Cook on June 9, 2022

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #197: Progressive Ruins
Our guest today is a Time magazine Hero of the Environment who at age 16 raised money for the Rainforest Action Network and at 17 “lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with…
by Ken Braun, Michael Watson on December 6, 2021