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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
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Sep 16, 2020 • 18 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
Last year, Extinction Rebellion claimed "billions will die from climate change" & "Earth is dying"

Both are lies, and I called them out for it

Now it is lying about me & smearing my colleague @ziontree

Why? Because @ziontree rightly denounced Extinction Rebellion for alarmism
As background, I

- have been an environmental activist for 33 years & a climate activist for 20 years

- helped win massive govt investment in renewables, 2003-09

- helped saved enough nuclear since 2016 to reduce CO2 equivalent to 24M cars on road

environmentalprogress.org/founder-presid…
Our small nonprofit research and policy organization @envprogress is funded by a small group of individuals with no financial interest in our research or advocacy

And, unlike @XRebellionUK @Greenpeace @SierraClub @NRDC we disclose our donors publicly:

environmentalprogress.org/mission
Extinction Rebellion (XR) is attacking Zion Lights & me now because our work is succeeding & XR is failing spectacularly

Over the last week, UK newspapers on Left & Right have been lambasting Extinction Rebellion for its bullying, racism, and nihilism

thetimes.co.uk/article/climat… ImageImageImageImage
"After winning support from celebrities including Benedict Cumberbatch & Radiohead, the group ran out of money in April and was unable to pay its staff... workers were paid about a third of what they were owed..." ImageImage
XR Founder Roger Hallam is "in prison after being arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause criminal damage. He had to step back from XR this year after making comments minimising the Holocaust but continued to be paid while on remand in prison for an unrelated allegation"
XR's leaders lie about our funding while engaging in suspicious financial schemes:

“Subsequently to The Times contacting us we have identified an omission from our transparency record of voluntary living expenses... This relates to a backdated payment to Roger Hallam..."
Hallam "proposed going to the US to attempt to reinvigorate the movement which was floundering over whether to make racial justice one of its demands...Hallam told group organisers that to build the US group the issue of race had to be disregarded... to appeal to the far right"
"Like so many lobby groups, my old colleagues peddle messages of doomsday gloom that alienate... It is scaremongering rather than inspiring.... Try telling that to the people living in poverty in the Punjab" @ziontree

dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
"It’s why, in June, I resigned from XR and took a new role overseeing British campaign group Environmental Progress... It’s a decision that led to some abusive messages from a small cohort of my old colleagues."
Roger Hallam and Extinction Rebellion are the death of anti-human environmentalism

Zion Lights and pro-nuclear activists are the birth of pro-human environmentalism

At some level, XR knows it, which is why it has launched this grotesque attack
Anybody who cares about the environment will join @ziontree @mark_lynas & pro-nuclear pro-human environmentalists in UK, France, Germany & 30+ nations around the world to @StandUp4Nuclear & stand up against alarmist, anti-nuclear, & anti-human bullies

To learn more about why the most alarmist greens like @XRebellionUK are also most opposed to the only workable solutions to air pollution & climate change (eg nuclear), and why Zion Lights is campaigning with me for nuclear, please consider reading:

quillette.com/2020/06/25/why…
Hint: it might be because Extinction Rebellion doesn't care a whit about protecting the environment but instead wants to:

- circumvent democracy with "citizen assemblies" that it controls

- prevent free expression by blocking newspaper delivery

- terrorize children
- take control of the economy

- exercise control over personal freedom

- deny poor nations the same high-energy lives that XR's affluent, upper-class members enjoy
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The journey from permaculture to Malthusian totalitarianism is shorter than even I had realized Image

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Nov 22
The Australian PM @AlboMP wants global censorship to counter misinformation. But only free speech can counter misinformation. Please share this to affirm your opposition to his awful bill!
Was the censorship bill a head fake to jam through Digital ID? 🤔
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Nov 21
I am concerned about the impact of social media on children, but this bill is a Trojan horse to create digital IDs, which is a giant leap into the totalitarian dystopia depicted in "Black Mirror," and already in place in China. And @AlboMP has proven censorial and untrustworthy.
Spot on:

Very concerning

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Nov 18
Lovers of free speech just scored victories in the US, EU, and Ireland. But now we’re in pitched battles in Britain & Australia, which is at dire risk of trying to censor the entire planet. This is about all of us, so I’m flying down. Share this to show solidarity. LFG!!! Image
I am headed directly to Canberra to meet with other free speech lovers and the wise and just representatives of the Australian people, who I am confident will kill the @AlboMP governments aggressive and hostile assault on the freedom that enables democracy and all other freedoms.

Australia belongs to its people and it is up to them and their representatives to decide whether they want to remain a liberal democratic nation or instantaneously become a totalitarian one.

But it is the duty of friends of Australia to bluntly warn that @AlboMP is pushing a censorship law that would not only end free speech for Australians but also be viewed as a hostile assault on the free Internet worldwide by people in other nations, including in the US, its best ally.

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@AlboMP Here is the text from the law that makes clear that the @AlboMP censorship law would apply to the entire global Internet.
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Nov 17
Trump's nominees are weird, say elites. But it was the elites' weird ideas that caused wars, addiction/OD crisis, Covid lockdowns, trans madness, censorship, and worse. Trump's nominees trigger the covert narcissism of elites who are rightly defensive at their appalling record.
Democrats act like they’re starting to get it, but they’re not. Their problems are all much worse than they realize. It’s not just that the Party is leaderless. It’s that the Party and the establishment institutions upon which it relies are discredited with half the country and are about to become more discredited with even more Americans as the truth fully comes out about censorship, Covid, weaponization of government, the transgender medical mistreatment scandal, and much else that the media and elites have lied about over the last 20 years. The media isn’t what people thought it was. It was never a reflection of reality. It was a reality distortion machine and propaganda industry in service of maintaining the narrow interests and power of a tiny group of decadent and psychologically disordered elites and their deeply deformed, dishonest institutions. Some might be reformed but others are too far gone to be saved.

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This is the kind of unAmerican garbage that Democrats made pervasive. It will take many years to root it all out from our institutions.

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Nov 16
The media says Trump's nominees are dangerous, but they're not. Their positions and priorities are well within the mainstream. The threat they pose isn't to the American people, it's to the pathocrats who created and worsened our border, public health, and foreign policy crises. Image
Over the last few years, the American people have come to believe that our establishment institutions are at least partly responsible for a series of self-inflicted wounds. Our health and medical establishment either failed to address or enabled declining life expectancy, a mental health crisis including an addiction epidemic, and a botched response to Covid. Our military and foreign policy establishment unnecessarily started and prolonged war and conflict in the Middle East and violated civil liberties at home in the name of fighting terrorism. And liberalized migration laws have depressed working-class wages, swamped the ability of cities to absorb the new migrants, and created a humanitarian disaster on the border.

Given all of that, the President-elect Donald Trump’s nominations make sense. As Border Czar, Thomas Homan will take strong action to close the southern border and deport criminals. National Director of Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard will bring greater skepticism to foreign military entanglements and calls to restrict civil liberties for national security. And Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will stand up to the corporations that most everyone agrees have put self-interest before the public’s interest on everything from drug safety to food quality.

We shouldn’t be surprised that some of them hold views that many of us disagree with. The main criticism of Trump’s nominees is that they have dangerous and fringe views. Homan said he would deport whole families. Gabbard said the Russian-backed Syrian dictator was not America’s enemy. And Kennedy espouses marginal and unsubstantiated views on everything from nuclear power to 5Gs.

But Homan has made clear his focus will be on deporting criminals, not families, whatever one thinks of Gabbard’s position on the Syrian conflict, it’s obvious from the context that she made her remarks in service of her loyalty to the US, not Russia, and Kennedy has said, repeatedly, that he won’t ban vaccines.

And throughout history, most real reformers and innovators have held fringe views and have had aspects of their personalities that are problematic. In most cases, those flaws or idiosyncrasies proved to be a small price to pay for their willingness to overcome the many obstacles required to achieve serious reforms of deeply entrenched institutions. This is true not just of Homan, Gabbard, and Kennedy, but also of Defense Secretary and Attorney General nominees, Pete Hegseth and Matt Gaetz, respectively. The accusations the media has made against the two men are so far unsubstantiated by the available evidence.

And none of the allegedly wrong views or bad deeds of Trump’s nominees outweigh the potential of the nominees to reform the institutions that are directly responsible for the invasion of Iraq, prolonged occupation of Afghanistan, entanglement in foreign conflicts, corporate capture of the FDA, the weaponization of government, Covid school closures, authoritarian and gratuitous Covid vaccine mandates, unhealthy diets, the addiction crisis that kills 100,000 Americans per year, the humanitarian disaster along the border, and the mistreatment of children with pseudoscientific transgender medicine.

Strong leaders committed to reforming America’s military and foreign policy establishment, its public health, food, and medical establishments, and its immigration and border security establishment are precisely what the American people wanted when they voted for Trump. If those nominees pursue destructive agendas in lieu of doing their jobs, we will be the first to call them out for it. But the establishment has no ground on which to stand...

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Nov 15
Over the last decade, Democrats & the media said that those of us who opposed DEI, racial quotas, and open borders had gone “far right.” We hadn’t. Rather, Democrats and the media had gone far left. We are only now emerging from 10+ years of extreme, psychopathic gaslighting. Image
Make no mistake: it was the mainstream news media that induced the mass psychosis that radicalized Democrats into believing that the US had somehow become *more* racist, against all available evidence. Image
The media did this. The mass brainwashing came from college-educated elites in control of the most powerful propaganda machine in world history. They got Democrats to believe the ludicrous view that their fellow Americans had somehow become secretly racist, practically overnight. Image
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