Michael Shellenberger | |
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Born | Colorado, U.S. | June 16, 1971
Education | Earlham College (BA) University of California, Santa Cruz (MA) |
Political party | Democratic (before 2022) Independent (2022–present) |
Movement | Ecomodernism |
Spouse | Helen Lee |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Stevens Institute of Technology’s Center for Science Writings Green Book Award (2008) |
Writing career | |
Subject | Energy, global warming, human development |
Website | |
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Michael D. Shellenberger (born June 16, 1971) is a professor, author, and journalist who writes on a wide range of topics including free speech, homelessness, and the environment.[1] He is a co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition.[2] Shellenberger founded the pro-nuclear non-profit Environmental Progress in 2016.[3]
Shellenberger has been active in challenging the environmental movement over impending threats and the best policies for addressing them.[4][5][6] He argues that global warming is "not the end of the world,"[6] and that Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), industrial agriculture, fracking, and nuclear power are important tools in protecting the environment.[5] His writing on climate change and environmentalism has been criticized by environmental scientists and academics, who have called some of his arguments "bad science" and "inaccurate".[17] Response to his work from journalists has been mixed.[22] In a similar manner, many academics criticized Shellenberger's positions and writings on homelessness, and he has received a mixed reception from writers and journalists on the topic;[26] and his fight against the election integrity work of the Stanford Internet Observatory which he sees as part of a "censorship-industrial complex" targeting conservatives, has been criticized by some.[27][28] Shellenberger ran unsuccessfully for governor of California in 2018 and 2022.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Shellenberger has a history of anti-green contrarianism. He thrust himself into the limelight in 2004, when he and Ted Nordhaus wrote an essay titled "The Death of Environmentalism." Thirty-three at the time, Shellenberger was already portraying himself as an environmentalist who had realized that environmentalism's problem was environmentalism itself... The story Shellenberger has stuck with is that the things environmentalists resist — nuclear, GMOs, fracking, industrial agriculture, and so on — are actually good for the environment.
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