A biography for Michael Shellenbergerhasn’t been written yet.
“אנחנו צריכים לשאוף לכך שערים, חוות ותחנות כוח יהיו בעלות יכולת ייצור חשמל גבוהה יותר, לא נמוכה יותר.”
“ההסבר לעלייה בכמות השריפות המסוכנות באוסטרליה אינו שינוי האקלים, אלא בנייה של בתים בסמוך ליערות.”
“התבססות מוחלטת על אנרגיה ירוקה תדרוש הגדלת השימוש בקרקע לאנרגיה מ־0.5% כיום לחמישים אחוזים.”
“פליטת הפחמן במרבית המדינות העשירות נמצאת בירידה, ויורדת באופן מתמיד מאז מחצית שנות השבעים בבריטניה, גרמניה וצרפת.”
“הצעד החשוב ביותר להפחתת זיהום אוויר ופליטות פחמן הוא מעבר מדלק עצים לפחם ונפט, לגז טבעי ואורניום.”
“שינוי האקלים אינו הופך את אסונות הטבע לקשים יותר.”
“מפעלים וחקלאות מודרנית הם מפתחות לחירות האנושית ולהתקדמות סביבתית.”
“It's when the conservationists became environmentalists that everything went bad. It stopped being about the environment. It became about controlling society.”
“The nature of nuclear weapons makes it impossible to either ban the bomb or wipe out an enemy's arsenal. Nuclear deterrence was unavoidable.”
“Most people think of solar and wind as new energy sources. In fact, they are two of our oldest.”
“Reporters have an obligation to report accurately and fairly on all issues they cover, especially ones as important as energy and the environment.”
“Facts still matter, and social media is allowing for a wider range of new and independent voices to outcompete alarmist environmental journalism at legacy publications.”
“YIMBYs should embrace a housing reform agenda broader than increasing urban density. This should start with ending tax shelters in the form of land conservation easements to cattle ranches and farms that abut suburbs. This would create an incentive for landowners convert them either to new housing subdivisions or to genuinely new natural areas.”
“If you want to save the natural environment, you just use nuclear. You grow more food on less land, and people live in cities. It's not rocket science.”
“The only countries that have successfully moved from fossil fuels to low-carbon power have done so with the help of nuclear energy.”
“The rapidly spinning blades of wind turbines act like an apex predator that big birds never evolved to deal with. And because big birds have much lower reproductive rates than small birds, their deaths have a far greater impact on the overall population of the species.”
“For years, I referred to climate change as an 'existential' threat to human civilization, and called it a 'crisis.'”
“Making anything more labor-intensive makes it more expensive.”
“Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing.”
“Allowing for suburbanization of California's ranches and farmlands would still allow for strong protections of California's truly natural areas like Yosemite, the redwoods, and oak woodlands and green spaces near cities.”