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Mike Shellenberger
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What Democrats got wrong

- Plastic bans *increase* CO2 emissions
- Going vegetarian reduces CO2 just 2-4%
- Factory farming reduces CO2 30-290%
- 95% of plastic waste from poor not rich nations

Me with @DanaPerino @FoxNews — please share!

video.foxnews.com/v/608382744000…
@DanaPerino @FoxNews This study calculates that California's plastic bag ban increased CO2 emissions by 59 million pounds annually.

h/t @BjornLomborg

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@DanaPerino @FoxNews @BjornLomborg 95% of plastic waste in oceans comes from poor and developing countries not OECD:

science.sciencemag.org/content/347/62…
Pasture ("grass-fed") beef requires 14-19 times more land and generates 30% to 290% more carbon emissions per kilogram than industrial beef, according to this review of 15 studies:

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Going vegetarian reduces emissions just 2-4%

Over 80% of vegetarians give it up after their first year

wsj.com/articles/veget…
@DanaPerino @FoxNews As for the call by @SenWarren @BernieSanders to shut down nuclear plants, doing so would drastically increase emissions. Indeed, it always does, everywhere in the world:

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
As such, they are using climate change as an excuse to do renewables and move to low-energy society.

The real reason they hate nuclear is because it means we don't need renewables

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
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Mike Shellenberger
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Calif. Gov. @GavinNewsom

- blaming others for homelessness crisis he helped create

- proposes housing vouchers he knows won't work

- claimed Texas created SF homeless problem

- more focused on being elected president in 2024 than saving Calif. in 2019

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Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Don’t believe Fukushima hype

- “Natural” radiation far greater than from accident

- No harm *possible* to humans from tritium, a mildly radioactive H isotope

- Greenpeace fear-mongering hurts Japanese fishermen & the planet

Because science

@JimConca

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Nuclear energy

- Has *saved* 2M lives

- Just ~200 deaths *total* from *all* nuclear accidents

- 5x more people die on streets of LA in one year

- Is *inherently* safest because nuclear fuel energy dense

*Fear* of nuclear, on other hand, is deadly

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
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- Eating normal food = 200x more radiation than from Chernobyl

- Fear & panic — spread by @Greenpeace et al. — has resulted in death & suffering
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Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Homelessness raging out of control in California

- Trump may intervene
- Death, rapes, assaults rising
- Calif. has 90k on streets but NYC shelters 95% of homeless

What's going on?

Here's why California keeps making homelessness worse

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
LA's $1.2B investment in housing “was supposed to build 10,000 units but in truth will create half that because each one costs $527,000 to $700,000,” said Bales.

“They will take ten years to build, at which point 44,000 lives will have been destroyed by living on the street.”
Last Thursday, the day I published the above piece, the 28th homeless person was killed this year in Los Angeles.

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I’ve been criticized for cherry-picking. Really?
I show going vegetarian cuts 1-9% of emissions, use central 4.3%. Half lost in rebound, so ~2% actual reduction
My critics say 1-9% should be 1.5-9%. They cherry-pick 9%, round up to 10%, ignore rebound and claim 10%
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nypost.com/2018/10/22/no-…
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