“The idea that we’re a cancer on the planet—well, what do you do with cancer? You eradicate it. I’ve heard environmentally sensitive types say that, and it’s horrifying. They’re completely blind to what they’re saying. If they weren’t blind to it, they’d be traumatized by it.”
“Is this de­sire to de­stroy a sign of some twisted spir­i­tual long­ing?”

“I think so,” said Jordan Peterson. “The peo­ple who car­i­ca­ture West­ern so­ci­ety as a pa­tri­archy, and then de­scribe it as evil, they’re pos­sessed by a re­li­gious idea.”
I agree:

“The trouble with the new environmental religion is that it has become increasingly apocalyptic, destructive, and self-defeating. It leads its adherents to demonize their opponents, often hypocritically.”
“It drives them to seek to restrict power and prosperity at home and abroad. And it spreads anxiety and depression without meeting the deeper psychological, existential, and spiritual needs its ostensibly secular devotees seek.”

wsj.com/articles/apoca…
“Mr. Shellenberger wants to woo them to an alternative faith that he calls environmental humanism, which is committed to the “transcendent moral purpose of universal human flourishing and environmental progress.”

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I was honored yesterday to be followed by Professor Peterson

Maybe he read Apocalypse Never?

😃
Now available in 17 languages!

amazon.com/Apocalypse-Nev…
I should have said, “Will soon be available...”

Available now in Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, and Korean!

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3 May
Hi @fmanjoo @nytimes

Your recent article claims “fossil fuels... get more expensive as we pull more of them from the ground”

But that’s falsified by the tech revolution which dramatically lowered the price of natural gas (graph below)

Isn’t a correction merited? Image
You might be interested in research I did into the origins of the fracking revolution which resulted in radical price declines of oil & gas. It was cited by your colleague a few years back:

nytimes.com/2015/01/21/bus…
You might also be interested in reporting done by your newspaper into the use of forced labor to make solar panels, which may be responsible for a significant share of their price decline, alongside dumping, neither of which is mentioned in your column

nytimes.com/2021/01/08/bus…
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2 May
New research from Princeton University and Bloomberg confirms that renewables require 300 - 400 times more land than natural gas and nuclear plants

Finally They Admit Renewables Are Terrible For The Environment

My latest for Substack. Please share!

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/finally-they…
Over the last few years, I have been pushing back against the idea that renewables are good for the environment.

In 2019 I published, “Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet,” which was the most-read article of the year at Quillette.

quillette.com/2019/02/27/why…
And I gave a TEDx talk by the same name which today has 2.5 million views.

Read 11 tweets
27 Apr
Renewable energy advocates said that cheap solar panels meant California's electricity prices would stop rising

That was a lie

California's electricity prices will rise more than 50% by 2030

California electric prices rose 42% - 78% between 2010 and 2020

Shocking new data
"We are in a rate crisis with electricity costs growing faster than inflation, inequity rising, & wildfire costs coming," said the public advocate at the Cal Public Utilities Commission

California rates increased 7x more than they did in rest of US

utilitydive.com/news/californi…
California is the Democrats' climate model for the rest of the US, even though it has the sixth highest electricity prices in the U.S., which hurts the poor most, and suffers blackouts due to over-reliance on weather-dependent energies

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
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23 Apr
@USWeatherExpert @davey1233 @swansandsable The Financial Times's @Grepsul investigated nuclear economics last year came to same conclusion: standardization lowers costs and innovation raises it

ft.com/content/c06524…
@USWeatherExpert @davey1233 @swansandsable @Grepsul "Only by sticking firmly to the same specification, engineers and builders could you drive down construction costs. This 'learning by doing' could lead to meaningful reductions."
@USWeatherExpert @davey1233 @swansandsable @Grepsul "Having swallowed the hefty 'first of a kind' (FOAK) costs — see Hinkley and Flamanville — and invested in the supply chain to build the latest big “practical” reactors (after a 30-year nuclear hiatus), countries such as the UK should build large 'cookie-cutter' fleets."
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22 Apr
Democrats must stop sacrificing good American nuclear jobs for cheap Chinese solar panels

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forbes.com/sites/michaels…
The Biden Administration is promoting the participation of Chinese President Xi Jinping in a White House climate summit at a time when Congress is considering whether or not to halt the import of solar panels from China for human rights reasons.
“China’s Solar Dominance Presents Biden With an Ugly Dilemma,” read the @nytimes headline of an article published yesterday. “President Biden’s vow to work with China on issues like climate change is clashing with his promise to defend human rights.”

nytimes.com/2021/04/20/bus…
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20 Apr
Democrats in Congress point to blackouts in Texas & California as reason to increase subsidies for renewables, but anyone concerned about extreme weather should want *less* reliance on weather-dependent energy sources, not more.

My latest @Forbes!

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
@Forbes Both the heat-driven August 2020 electricity shortage in California, and the cold-driven February 2021 shortage in Texas, were caused by over-reliance, not under-reliance, on weather-dependent renewables like solar panels and wind turbines.
@Forbes Thus, any effort by the federal government to make states more dependent on renewables would likely increase not decrease the probability and frequency of blackouts.
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