Michael Shellenberger

Michael Shellenberger
Shellenberger in 2024
Born (1971-06-16) June 16, 1971 (age 53)
Colorado, U.S.
EducationEarlham College (BA)
University of California, Santa Cruz (MA)
Political partyDemocratic (before 2022)
Independent (2022–present)
MovementEcomodernism
SpouseHelen Lee
Children2
AwardsStevens Institute of Technology’s Center for Science Writings Green Book Award (2008)
Writing career
SubjectEnergy, global warming, human development
Shellenberger's voice
On his political vision
Website
Official website

Michael D. Shellenberger (born June 16, 1971) is an 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] He also founded Public, a Substack publication.

Shellenberger has been active in critiquing the environmental movement, offering alternative views on climate threats and policies.[2][3][4] He contends that while global warming is a concern, it is "not the end of the world",[4] and advocates for the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), industrial agriculture, fracking, and nuclear power as tools for environmental protection.[3] His views on climate change and environmentalism have sparked debate, with some environmental scientists and academics challenging aspects of his arguments, while others support his positions. Journalistic response to his work has been mixed, with both praise and criticism.[15] Similarly, his positions on homelessness have generated a range of reactions from academics and writers.[20] Shellenberger ran for governor of California in 2018 and 2022 but was unsuccessful in both campaigns.

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  3. ^ a b "Los Angeles Review of Books". October 6, 2020. Retrieved June 29, 2022. 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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  6. ^ "Article by Michael Shellenberger mixes accurate and inaccurate claims in support of a misleading and overly simplistic argumentation about climate change". Climate Feedback. July 6, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2024.
  7. ^ Gleick, Peter H. (July 15, 2020). "Book review: Bad science and bad arguments abound in 'Apocalypse Never' by Michael Shellenberger". Yale Climate Connections. Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Retrieved September 24, 2020.
  8. ^ Demos, TJ (2017). Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today. MIT Press. pp. 46–49. ISBN 9783956792106.
  9. ^ Caradonna, Jeremy L.; Norgaard, Richard B.; Borowy, Iris (2015). "A Degrowth Response to an Ecomodernist Manifesto". Resilience.
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  11. ^ Kallis, Giorgos; Bliss, Sam (January 4, 2019). "Post-environmentalism: origins and evolution of a strange idea". Journal of Political Ecology. 26 (1): 466–85. doi:10.2458/v26i1.23238. S2CID 202259917.
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  13. ^ Adamson, Joni; Slovic, Scott (2009). "Guest Editors' Introduction the Shoulders We Stand on: An Introduction to Ethnicity and Ecocriticism". MELUS. 34 (2): 5–24. doi:10.1353/mel.0.0019. ISSN 0163-755X. JSTOR 20532676. S2CID 143615564.
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