Michael Shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger is the founder of Public, the C.B.R. Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin, and is a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment" and Green Book Award winner.
Price range
- $46,000 - $50,000
Expert
- Agriculture
- Environmental Policy
- Green/Environment
- Politics
- Sustainability: Environment
Experience
- Energy
- Government
- Politics
Career
- 35 Years
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About
Michael Shellenberger is the founder of Public, the C.B.R. Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin, and the best-selling author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities (HarperCollins 2021) and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (HarperCollins 2020). He is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award winner, Dao Journalism Prize-winner, and Founder of Civilization Works.
Michael has broken major stories, including on the Twitter Files, for which he won the 2023 Dao Award for journalism; the Censorship Industrial Complex; San Francisco’s cash incentives for homelessness; the “Amazon Forest are the lungs of the world” myth; climate pseudoscience; climate anxiety; the U.S. government support for fracking; and forest management, climate change, and California’s fires.
Michael offers testimony as a journalist and policy expert to the U.S. Congress on a range of issues covering free speech, censorship, and the environment. He has testifiedon the need for UAP transparency (November 2024); censorship in Brazil (May 2024); Censorship Industrial Complex, Part 2 (November 2023); AI and censorship(September 2023); climate change and public health (April 2023); Big Tech censorship(March 2023); the Censorship Industrial Complex, Part 1 (March 2023); climate change and the global energy crisis (September 2022); Texas & California electrical grid failures (April 2021); climate change and agriculture (February 2021); climate change and health (August 2020); climate change and energy (July 2020); and nuclear energy(January 2020).
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Video Clips
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Topics
Why renewables can’t save the planet
Environmentalists have long promoted renewable energy sources like solar panels and wind farms to save the climate. But what about when those technologies destroy the environment? In this provocative talk, Time Magazine’s “Hero of the Environment” and energy expert, Michael Shellenberger explains why solar and wind farms require so much land for mining and energy production, and an alternative path to saving both the climate and the natural environment.
Why I changed my mind about nuclear power
Over the last decade, Michael and his colleagues have constructed a new paradigm that views prosperity, cheap energy, and nuclear power as the keys to environmental progress. A book he co-wrote (with Ted Nordhaus) in 2007, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, was called by Wired magazine “the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring,” while Time Magazine called him a “hero of the environment.” In the 1990s, he helped protect the last signi cant groves of old-growth redwoods still in private hands and bring about labor improvements to Nike factories in Asia.
How Fear of Nuclear Ends
Michael Shellenberger shows us how the fear of nuclear power was created by people who had ideological fears or sought to exploit it for political gain, including California’s former and current Governor, Jerry Brown. Indeed, even the Sierra Club was pro-nuclear in the 1960s.