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 · 13 min read
Environmentalism Should Not Be Intersectional Sustainable progress requires that ecological concerns be taken seriously and addressed rationally. Gerfried Ambrosch 15 Feb 2024 · 11 min read
Humanity Should Split More Atoms The cure for poverty and climate change is nuclear. Lea Booth 7 Jul 2023 · 7 min read
Chernobyl Revisited Much of the tragedy resides in our collective response to the meltdown. Lea Booth 26 Apr 2023 · 7 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 Quillette / Michael Shellenberger 11 Jul 2020 ·
Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World A NASA scientist predicted simultaneous collapses of food systems on multiple continents at once. Michael Shellenberger 8 Jul 2020 · 36 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 · 7 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 · 5 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
Previously Unrecognized Rights: Climate Change Lawsuits and the Rule of Law Environmental advocates are asking courts to halt allegedly harmful private and public initiatives on the basis of ancient Roman law, common law doctrines, international agreements and norms, and innovative interpretations of constitutions. James Huffman 30 Oct 2018 · 11 min read