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18 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
“Facebook & Science Feedback are using their ‘fight against misinformation’ as a weapon to spread it.”

Facebook keeps slandering people for reporting the truth

Congress must stop protecting Facebook from lawsuits or regulate it like the monopoly it is

city-journal.org/facebook-and-i…
Facebook similarly slandered & censored me for making factual statements
And it slandered and censored @JohnStossel
Congress must either repeal the immunity it gave to social media companies or it must regulate Facebook and Twitter and the monopoly utilities they are

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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
19 May
It's now clear that it wasn't efficiency that made solar panels cheap. It was coal, China's heavy subsidies, & "slave" labor

- Panel efficiency grew just 3%

- China & solar industry contradicts itself on forced labor

- U.S. & E.U. may ban China solar

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/china-made-s…
Lack of significant automation of solar panel production may be because of "the delicate nature of solar cells... they can be easily broken if not handled properly," noted @izakaminska @FT in her post today, quoting a solar industry report

ft.com/content/8614fd…
The Chinese government credits coal for cheap solar. “Over the past decade, Xinjiang has become a major polysilicon production hub... The industry requires extensive amounts of energy, and that makes relatively cheaper electricity and abundant [coal] power in appealing”
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18 May
"My commitment to the Left came to its final breaking point after Cuomo, NRDC, & AOC forced the premature closure of Indian Point nuclear plant... By forsaking nuclear energy, the Left has abandoned its duty to deliver shared prosperity."

@dumbaristotle

theamericanconservative.com/articles/nucle…
@dumbaristotle "The Left’s fantasies are romantic. The romance is that of trauma and healing. They think in terms of victimization rather than moral agency...."
"Personal pain—not universal rights nor civic duty—is the prism through which they derive their conceptions of the social good. Absence of pain serves as their vision of freedom."
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14 May
New report documents "sinister truth about the solar industry”

Biden Admin finally says US may sanction solar "slavery" panels

Renewables experiment coming to an end

Bad physics = bad economics = bad morality

THREAD & new piece @Forbes @SubstackInc

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/finally-the-…
I have been writing about the morally urgent need to halt solar panels made under forced labor conditions in China, where the U.S. State Department says genocide is underway. Yesterday, the Biden Administration finally addressed the issue in a congressional hearing.
“How can you assure us,” @RepMcCaul of President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, “that solar panels made from slave labor coming out of China, where genocide is taking place as we speak, are never a part of the climate solution in the United States?”
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13 May
Corey is homeless & addicted to fentanyl

He could OD & die as nearly 90k Americans did in 2020

No psychiatrist thinks fentanyl is good medicine for mental illness & yet we enable its use

Here's why Californians should be ashamed of ourselves

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michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-californ…
In the fall of 2019, someone posted a picture of a homeless man to a Facebook group called “BART Rants and Raves,” where people share photos and videos of the often upsetting things they see while riding BART, the San Francisco Bay Area’s subway system.
The photo was of 30-year-old Corey Sylvester. He was passed out and looked very sick. His clothes were ragged, his hair and beard matted.
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11 May
From 2010-2020, California saw homelessness rise 31% even as it declined 18% in the rest of U.S.

Today, Gov. @GavinNewsom announced he would double down the very same policies that made homelessness worse

Here's what he should do instead

THREAD

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-californ…
California saw its homeless population rise by 31 percent even as the number of homeless declined 18 percent in the rest of the United States between 2010 and 2020.
As a result, there are today 161,000 total homeless in California, with about 113,000 of them “unsheltered,” meaning they’re sleeping in tents on sidewalks, in parks, and alongside highways.
Read 51 tweets
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7 May
The Democrats $2.3 trillion climate infrastructure bill could worsen blackouts, inflation, & poverty but, in the biggest pro-nuclear victory to date, could also save America's nuclear plants

My latest for Substack, please share!

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/biden-goes-n…
Over the last five years, my colleagues and I have worked with scientists and environmentalists around the world to stop anti-nuclear activists from shutting down nuclear power plants.
I testified six times before Congress, gave three TED talks that have been viewed over six million times, and published Apocalypse Never, which argues that only nuclear energy can guarantee universal prosperity and environmental progress.
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