Michael Shellenberger

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 Cagle 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

Green Watch
Antidote for “Apocalyptic Environmentalists”: Apocalypse Never
Sometime during the last eight years Oliver Stone seems to have lost his faith in angry, self-aware hurricanes and the other end-times prophecies of the environmental left. In place of…
by Ken Braun on January 29, 2021

Green Watch
Antidote for “Apocalyptic Environmentalists”: “Environmental Colonialism”
Shellenberger fully covers the tedious renewable energy reliability trap. The wind doesn’t always blow, the sun doesn’t always shine, we’re laughably far away from the battery potential needed to store…
by Ken Braun on January 29, 2021

Green Watch
Antidote for “Apocalyptic Environmentalists”: Nuking a Reasonable Compromise
Shellenberger notes that “a single Coke can of uranium can provide enough energy for an entire high-energy life.” The book’s advocacy of nuclear energy is arguably its most important and…
by Ken Braun on January 29, 2021