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“The value of solar and wind decline in economic value as they become larger shares of the electricity grid for physical reasons. They produce too much energy when societies don't need it and not enough energy when they do.”
“Some amount of fear of nuclear weapons is necessary for nuclear deterrence to work.”
“Solar makes electricity expensive for two inherently physical reasons. Sunlight is dilute, requiring 10 to 15 times as much materials and mining, and up to 5,000 times more land, than non-renewables. And sunlight is unreliable, which reduces the value of solar as it becomes a larger part of energy supplies.”
“Chernobyl' is supposedly about the lies, arrogance, and suppression of criticism under Communism, but the mini-series portrays life in the Soviet Union in the 1980s as inaccurately, and melodramatically, as it portrays the effects of radiation.”
“We should be concerned about the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, without question. There is nothing automatic about adaptation. But it's clear that there is simply no science that supports claims that rising sea levels threaten civilization much less the apocalypse.”
“Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.”
“Environmentalism, apocalyptic environmentalism in particular, has become the dominant religion of supposedly secular people in the West.”
“The producers of 'Chernobyl' should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power.”
“Why are the people who are most alarmist about climate change so opposed to the technologies that are solving it? One possibility is that they truly believe nuclear and natural gas are as dangerous as climate change.”
“In many countries, wind turbines pose the single greatest threat to bats after habitat loss and white-nose syndrome.”
“Voters must feel that that the burden of new housing is being shared equally and not falling disproportionately on any one group.”
“Renewables require the use of vastly more land, longer and less-utilized transmission lines, and large amounts of storage whether from lithium batteries, new dams, compressed air caverns.”
“Paid child care would make child care more efficient, allowing more children to be cared for by fewer adults, and thus free up parents to work more.”
“Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party.”
“הסביבתנות היא הדת החילונית השלטת היום בקרב האליטה המשכילה של המעמד הבינוני גבוה ברוב המדינות המפותחות ובמדינות מתפתחות רבות.”
“אנו צריכים, אם כן, להתקדם מעבר לשכלתנות ולאמץ מחדש את ההומניזם, המאשר את ייחודו של המין האנושי, אל מול סביבתנים מלתוסיאניים אפוקליפטיים המוקיעים את הציוויליזציה והאנושות עצמה.”
“תאוות הבצע הצילה את הלווייתנים, לא גרינפיס.”
“סדנאות היזע מצילות את הפלנטה.”
“בשם פעילי הסביבה ברחבי העולם, אני רוצה להתנצל באופן רשמי על בהלת האקלים שיצרנו בשלושת העשורים האחרונים. שינוי האקלים אכן מתרחש, רק שהוא לא מבשר על סוף העולם.”
“שימוש בעצים כדלק הוא גרוע הרבה יותר עבור בני אדם ובעלי חיים מאשר דלקים מאובנים כנפט או פחם.”