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Green Acceleration

It is time to take environmentalism away from the environmentalists.

Craig DeLancey

23 Dec 2024 · 7 min read

An Interview with Michael Shellenberger

Misinformation Bill Claire: Welcome, Michael, welcome to Sydney. It’s great to have you here. Now, I want to talk to you about the misinformation bill that the current government is tabling, which is going to a vote in the Senate next week. The government is currently considering both a

Claire Lehmann / Michael Shellenberger

3 Dec 2024 · 18 min read

Nuclear Power Is Already Great

When “nuclear-loving greens” demand innovation, they imply something is wrong with current reactors, and slow down climate policy. This needs to stop.

Marco Visscher

20 Nov 2024 · 9 min read

Net Zero and the Law of Diminishing Returns

Civilisation has always been dependent on energy.

Noel Yaxley

6 Dec 2023 · 9 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

It’s Time the Green Movement Stopped Demonizing Nuclear

The pro-nuclear movement is gaining traction despite vocal opposition

Zion Lights

10 Dec 2022 · 13 min read

The Energy Future Belongs to Nuclear

It remains the only proven technology capable of serving the energy needs of de-carbonized modern society.

Regis Nicoll

4 Nov 2022 · 6 min read

Hyping the Energy Transition

Consumption of fossil fuels is growing faster than ever.

Robert Bryce

18 Oct 2022 · 7 min read

Germany's Energy Catastrophe

If Russia permanently cuts off natural gas exports to Germany, it will likely send the country, the world’s fourth-largest economy, into a severe recession.

Lea Booth

14 Jul 2022 · 9 min read

The Problem with Nuclear Power

In the US it’s hard to imagine nuclear power playing anything more than a minimal role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which makes projected goals for 2030 and beyond difficult to achieve.

William Beaver

31 May 2022 · 7 min read

How We Can Get Clean Energy—What Needs to Be Done?

Editor's note: this is the third in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe?” and Part III provides an answer to “What Needs to Be Done?

Robert Zubrin

17 May 2022 · 12 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