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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
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May 27, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Blackouts, higher energy prices, China-made "slavery" solar panels, foreign dependence, and conflicts-of-interest more than politics are behind the failure of the Democrats' climate legislation in Congress

Why Biden’s Climate Agenda Is Falling Apart
michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-bidens-c…
With Biden's climate infrastructure legislation failing, progressives protest to demand President @JoeBiden stop talking to Republicans & instead ram through $2 trillion in climate legislation over the objections of Democratic Sen. @Sen_JoeManchin

thehill.com/policy/energy-…
The climate-renewables agenda is also failing in Europe

"People don't want to hear bad news about the climate crisis anymore" complained @GretaThunberg to Le Monde

In truth, people are tired of being lied to by alarmists who hide their true motivations

lemonde.fr/planete/articl… ImageImage
So called "climate activists" and "environmentalists" in Europe and the U.S. are greenwashing the destruction of our largest source of zero-emissions electricity, nuclear

They are corrupted financially and directly on the take from fossil/RE industries

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/maybe-theyre…
But even financial corruption has its limits

Blackouts, energy spikes, and revelations of "genocide" and "slavery" in the making of solar panels in China have undermined the renewable-fossil energy agenda of Democrats & European Greens alike

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-bidens-c…
The climate apocalypse/renewable energy grift is coming to an end

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-environm…
“There have been a number of social movements that have lost momentum over time, to varying degrees in different places. The opposition to nuclear power, at least in the U.S., appears to have declined sharply, as the predicted apocalypse never arrived.”

forbes.com/sites/michaell…
“Many climate activists describe their claims as being supported by science. Shellenberger challenged a number of such claims, asking for the scientific evidence, while noting it wasn’t in the IPCC reports, and got little or no response”
@laffngeconomist

forbes.com/sites/michaell…
“Concern about homelessness was strong in the 1980s, but then receded before resurging recently. Part of the problem stems from activists’ insistence that homelessness was due to conservative economic policies, when ultimately it was primarily due substance abuse & mental health”

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Sep 18
“The White House issued a rare rebuke of Brazil Tuesday for banning the country’s residents from accessing X in a free-speech struggle with the platform’s billionaire owner Elon Musk.”

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Yes, this is real

“When it comes to social media, we have been very clear that we think that folks should have access to social media. It’s a form of freedom of speech,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in response to a press-briefing question from reporter Raquel Krähenbühl of Brazil’s TV Globo.

nypost.com/2024/09/17/us-…
Also today, members of Congress introduced anti-censorship legislation aimed at Brazil. LFG!!!
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Sep 16
Wow — massive free speech victory! Europe’s top censor has quit. This comes a few weeks after he got in trouble for sending an open letter to Elon Musk claiming his upcoming interview with Donald Trump might violate Europe’s censorship laws.
Here’s the backstory, including media coverage about how @ThierryBreton got in trouble with his colleagues in Brussels. I don’t know that he quit because of this but it may be that @vonderleyen and others felt he had become a liability in their crusade to censor the Internet:
@ThierryBreton @vonderleyen In his letter, @ThierryBreton says that @vonderleyen asked France to withdraw Breton’s name as a nominee to serve five more years for “personal reasons.” 🤔 Image
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Sep 7
Brazilian President Lula and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes say they must block X to protect Brazil’s independence. X is a platform for dangerous, false, and hateful words, they say, and many of those words violate Brazil’s laws and Constitution.

But their censorship goes far beyond what Brazil’s constitution allows. The government demanded that X and other social media networks censor and ban individual people, including journalists and politicians. Such bans are immoral, illegal, and unconstitutional. They constitute election interference and undermine democracy by preventing candidates from getting the word out.

I agree that lying is wrong, hate speech is ugly, and there are limits to freedom of speech. We must not allow people to use words that directly result in physical violence.

But everybody lies, everybody engages in hate speech, and the limits to free speech must never include elections. Imagine what would happen if it were illegal to lie: everyone should go to prison starting with the journalists and politicians. As for hate speech, did Lula express hatred when he praised Adolf Hitler? Does he not express hatred every time he speaks of Elon Musk and Jair Bolsonaro?

People blame speech for the chaos of January 6 in the United States and January 8 in Brazil. But the events of those days resulted from inadequate security, not anything anyone said online. And if the government can censor disfavored election information, how would anyone ever know if the government stole an election? 

Democracy and secure elections depend on freedom of speech. The idea that we must censor speech to protect democracy ranks with other Orwellian ideas like “War is peace” and “Slavery is freedom.” For thousands of years, democracy and freedom walk hand in hand, as do censorship and dictatorship.

Everybody knows in their heart that censorship is wrong. We all know that we are imperfect and do not know everything. We know that we rely on others to discover the truth. Why, then, do so many people want censorship?Image
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The crowd was absolutely enormous. Without a doubt one of the largest free speech protests in history.
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Sep 5
The Washington Post has been attacking @elonmusk for years for not censoring more. Now, amazingly, it is praising him for standing up Brazil’s dictator. Image
“Whatever the threat to democracy that the accounts Mr. Moraes wanted gone might have posed, the threat from one government official limiting the speech of 220 million people is greater.”
“Taken together with Mr. Moraes’s choice to freeze the assets of internet-provider Starlink, a separate company of Mr. Musk’s, this move aligns Brazil not with the free world but with the likes of China and Russia.”
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Sep 2
Thousands of Brazilians are resisting the order by the Dictators Moraes and Lula. They include journalists and Senators from Left, Right, and center. And people in the federal capital, Brasilia, are able to access X without VPN. Moraes’ immoral censorship crusade is doomed.
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Aug 31
Unbelievable. President Lula’s own party, the PT, is breaking the law and posting on X. They are like the pig rulers from Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” The laws don’t apply to them. This is a what totalitarianism looks like.
The biggest media company in Brazil, Globo, which has been demanding censorship, is also breaking the law and posting on X. Globo is a state-funded propaganda network. Lula increased government funding for Globo by 60%. This is grotesque. Brazil’s elites are lawless.
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