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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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Jun 29
The website of NYC mayoral frontrunner says he'll "shift the tax burden" to "whiter neighborhoods." When asked about his openly racist agenda, @ZohranKMamdani insists it's not a proposal at all but rather "a description of what we see right now." That's next-level gaslighting.😬
This guy's ability to lie so calmly while smiling should send chills up the spines of every New Yorker.

He could have taken it down and said, "You know, I regret that the website said that and so I deleted it, because it doesn't express what I believe."

Instead, he's just asked millions of New Yorkers to believe his own obviously flagrant lie rather than their own eyes. That's creepy and wrong.

Everyone can see for themselves that he used a gratuitous racial reference regarding a tax proposal. We don't tax people on race. So why use it? Because he and his campaign wanted to introduce race.

And it's not the first time. @ZohranKMamdani should delete his flagrantly racist tweets and web site language, apologize, and promise to never invoke racism in these ways again.Image
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The audacity of @ZohranKMamdani to cite Dr. Martin Luther King should make your skin crawl. King adamantly rejected anti-white racism.

Mamdani’s call for higher taxes on white neighborhoods should shock New Yorkers. If they elect him as Mayor then they will have no excuses. He’s made clear that he will advance a racist agenda and then demand that people believe his lies.
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Jun 28
The idea that former Intelligence Community officials are working with European leaders to censor the Internet sounds like a conspiracy theory, but over the last two days, Obama’s CIA Director plotted with UK, EU, and Irish officials in Dublin to do precisely that. Image
These people are a direct and imminent threat to free speech and democracy worldwide. They are dangerous and out of control:

Former CIA Director John Brennan helped initiate the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. He used foreign spies to help trigger the FBI investigation of of the Trump campaign. And he manipulated the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment to falsely claim the Russians favored Trump over Clinton.

Niamh Hodnett, Ireland’s “Online Safety Commissioner,” leads Ireland’s censorship regime under the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act, which mirrors EU and U.S.-backed models shaped by intelligence-linked NGOs.

Aine Kerr, a Former Facebook Policy Manager, helped manage Facebook’s public policy as it partnered with U.S. intelligence agencies post-2016, then co-founded Kinzen, which received support from EU and transatlantic institutions focused on content surveillance. Her work connects platform moderation with state-funded narrative monitoring.

Nóirín O’Sullivan, a Former Garda (Irish police) Commissioner and EUROPOL Official, who went from leading Ireland’s national police to a senior role at EUROPOL, which works closely with intelligence and security services across Europe. She advocates for integrating security principles into online content governance.

Claire Loftus, Ireland’s Former Director of Public Prosecutions, oversaw prosecutions during a period of expanding legal efforts to criminalize online expression and misinformation. Her presence signals an effort to align the judiciary with state-backed censorship.

Robyn Simcox, the UK Commissioner for Countering Extremism,
operates within the UK Home Office, a department with direct ties to MI5 and GCHQ. She frames conspiracy theories and misinformation as forms of radicalization and demands surveillance and preemptive regulation. Her office channels intelligence priorities into speech policing under the banner of counter-extremism.Image
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Brennan triggered the Trump-Russia collusion hoax
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Jun 27
Brazil has been banning and censoring journalists and politicians for years. But now it is taking steps to ban X entirely. It’s time for @SecRubio to block President Lula, Justice Moraes, and their criminal accomplices from entering the US. Image
President Trump and Secretary Rubio must not let these tin pot dictators censor speech and ban the world’s most important social media company.
The sinister Lula and creepy Moraes are trying to intimidate my colleagues and me. We won’t back down.
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Jun 10
They're launching mortar rounds, @GavinNewsom
video credit: @alexdatig
Stay safe out there, @alexdatig Image
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Jun 9
Everybody in L.A. knows there aren't enough police officers. It has little more than half as many per capita as Chicago. And yet @GavinNewsom @MayorOfLA @KamalaHarris and *every single* Democratic governor opposed calling out the National Guard. Image
California has half the population as Germany and a bigger economy. We pay the highest taxes by far. And yet, not only does LA have nearly half the police per capita as Chicago, Mayor @KarenBassLA wants to lay-off 400 police officers. Image
@KarenBassLA They're not going to be satisfied until the rest of LA burns down.

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Jun 8
There's no shortage of police in L.A., said @GavinNewsom a few hours ago. In fact, L.A. has far fewer police per capita than other big cities. And now, the protesters have overrun the police and blocked the highway. Video: @AnthonyCabassa_
L.A.'s lack of police has been one of the biggest crime stories in California for a decade. As such, @GavinNewsom is either lying or even more in a bubble than we knew. And now, naturally, LA's radical-Left mayor and city council want to cut 400 more police officers. Image
@GavinNewsom Kamala Harris did more than anyone to pass the initiative that decriminalized open air drug dealing and shoplifting. She’s pro-crime because she’s against civilization — at least for poor and working class people, not her and her neighbors.

x.com/kamalaharris/s… x.com/kamalaharris/s…
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