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If you believe we are over-reacting to coronavirus, how many deaths would need to occur for you to change your mind?
Please use *GLOBAL* deaths

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I am loving all of your replies to this survey!

I am now inspired to write something on the ethics of cost-benefit analysis and coronavirus

Your responses are of greater value to me than the survey results themselves which are, as everybody knows (yes?) *unscientific*

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Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Major new documentary film produced by Michael Moore exposes

- why renewables are worse for environment than fossil fuels

- why green leaders promote them

- why everybody got it wrong

My latest @Forbes — please share!

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
@Forbes "I found myself thinking of Robert Stone’s 2013 documentary, "Pandora’s Promise," which made the case for nuclear.... ['Planet of the Humans'] doesn’t mention nuclear and – a little lamely, perhaps – has no clear moral"

@PeterBradshaw1

theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/…
I recognize that I am biased since I am in "Pandora's Promise" but it remains the best, most hopeful, and most inspirational environmental documentary film out there

Trailer here:

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Mike Shellenberger
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“The the need for nu­clear power is clear, but politi­cians in many na­tions are spin­ning fab­u­list tales of a rapid tran­si­tion to zero-emis­sion power with­out the use of the atom.“

@EasterbrookG review of the excellent new book by @pwrhungry

wsj.com/articles/a-que…
“Hospitals are being flooded with sick people who need ventilators and electricity to stay alive. If you were one of those patients, what would you choose to power your ventilator? Solar panels and wind turbines or a 2,000-megawatt nuclear plant?”

nypost.com/2020/04/06/a-p…
“Electric grids in densely populated cities should not be too reliant on any one fuel source. Yet that is what is happening: New York is concentrating on a single fuel: natural gas... Cuomo should order Indian Point nuclear plant to remain online”

nypost.com/2020/04/06/a-p…
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Mike Shellenberger
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I interviewed the modeler who forecasts just ~81K deaths in US through August from COVID-19 if current, radical social distancing measures remain in place through end of May

Here’s what he said, and what I learned

amgreatness.com/2020/03/27/soc…
As background, the modeler, Christopher Murray, heads the 500-person Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Wash., one of the largest disease modeling teams in the world

The Institute received a $279M, 10-year grant from Bill & Melinda Gates
You might not like or agree with his methods, or findings, but the Institute is hardly some fly-by-night operation

It has better hospital data than most state governments, which is why so many of them rely on the Institute to forecast how many ventilators they’ll need.
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