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Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis

Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures.

Claire Lehmann

12 Jan 2025 · 7 min read

Are Climate Doomers for Real?

Activists of all stripes will continue to preach that the end of the world is nigh, but that doesn’t mean that we should take them seriously.

Maarten Boudry

18 Mar 2024 · 14 min read

Environmentalism Should Not Be Intersectional

Sustainable progress requires that ecological concerns be taken seriously and addressed rationally.

Gerfried Ambrosch

15 Feb 2024 · 12 min read

Humanity Should Split More Atoms

The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear.

Lea Booth

7 Jul 2023 · 8 min read

Chernobyl Revisited

Much of the tragedy resides in our collective response to the meltdown.

Lea Booth

26 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

The Dawn of Nuclear Energy Abundance

The day is coming when nuclear energy will transform our planet.

Lea Booth

9 Feb 2023 · 19 min read

Why Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Effective Climate Policy than Denialists

The opposition to nuclear energy is not the only way in which mainstream environmentalists have, with the best of intentions, hurt the cause of climate action.

Maarten Boudry

27 Jan 2022 · 10 min read

I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn't Let Me Speak

What, exactly, had I said that was so dangerous as to lead Democrats to engage in character assassination and undermine liberal democratic norms? Nothing I hadn’t already said last January when I testified before Congress about climate change and energy.

Michael Shellenberger

29 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

PODCAST 99: Michael Shellenberger on his new book Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

Michael Shellenberger, President of Environmental Progress, talks to Jonathan Kay about global warming, natural disasters, media scaremongering—and why the world is actually getting safer, notwithstanding the scaremongering of Extinction Rebellion. An extract from his new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, recently appeared in Quillette.

Quillette / Michael Shellenberger

11 Jul 2020 · 1 min read

Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World

The Congo has a way of putting first-world prophecies of climate apocalypse into perspective.

Michael Shellenberger

8 Jul 2020 · 37 min read

Local Farming Can't Save the Planet

Globalization has made our food ridiculously cheap compared to previous eras. But perhaps that’s part of the problem.

Hidde Boersma and Maarten Boudry

3 Jul 2020 · 9 min read

On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests.

Michael Shellenberger

30 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

Why Climate Activists Will Go Nuclear—Or Go Extinct

A consensus has grown in the UK among Conservatives and much of Labour that it needs nuclear not just for climate change but also to reduce its dependence on imported natural gas.

Michael Shellenberger

25 Jun 2020 · 13 min read

Market Solutions to Climate Change: An Opportunity for Bipartisanship

Progressive environmentalists should welcome the addition of young conservatives to the broader environmentalist movement, but they must check some of their legislative ambitions at the door in order to pass meaningful, effective environmentalist policies.

Nate Hochman

28 Jan 2020 · 6 min read

Teenage Climate-Change Protestors Have No Idea What They’re Protesting

Our decisions tend to be rooted not in scientific analysis but in emotional reaction; and we tend to see protest not as a tool for social or legislative change, but simply as a chance to upset the status quo.

Felix Kirkby

25 Apr 2019 · 4 min read