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7 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Rising energy demand + over-investment in weather-dependent renewables = power outages in China, Japan, & Taiwan

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"The power shortages are raising concerns that Taipei’s ambitious plan to decommission all its nuclear power plants by 2025 and replace them with gas and renewable energy could be delayed."

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"The significant reduction in Japan's thermal [weather-independent] power capacity, which comprises 70% of its energy mix, could threaten the country's power supply without a significant boost in the utilization of nuclear power."

spglobal.com/platts/en/mark…
Both the heat-driven August 2020 electricity shortage in California, and the cold-driven February 2021 shortage in Texas, were caused in large part by over-reliance on weather-dependent renewables like solar panels and wind turbines.

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
"The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. One interesting question is why anybody ever thought they could."

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
7 Jun
A Los Angeles mayoral candidate was just nearly stabbed by homeless woman

“She said, ‘I’m gonna start killing people’"

I'm gonna go out on a limb & suggest mental illness or drugs were a factor

We need to shut down the open air drug scenes

THREAD
What are called "homeless encampments" in Venice Beach and Skid Row in L.A., the Tenderloin and Blade neighborhoods of SF & Seattle, are what Europeans call "open drug scenes," and view as threats to public health & safety.

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Progressive harm reduction and drug decriminalization advocates, myself included, have been misled, and in turn misled others, about what places like the Netherlands and Portugal *actually* did to deal with addiction
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7 Jun
Drugs killed 3,000x more people than nat. disasters last year

Drug deaths increased from 17k to 90k while CO2 emissions fell 22%

We need to get our priorities straight. We are in a drug emergency not a climate emergency

THREAD

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-drug-abu…
There is no scientifically valid scenario for climate change to ever kill 90,000 people in a single year, much less in the U.S. alone. While the intensity of hurricanes may rise 5 percent, the same science predicts their frequency will decline 25 percent.
Deaths from natural disasters have plummeted 99 percent in Bangladesh and other poor nations since the 1980s, even as the planet has warmed. Globally, the five-year period ending in 2020 had the fewest natural disaster deaths of any five-year period since 1900.
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5 Jun
“My daughter died from one pill”

“I woke up next to 3 people dead"

“I found my son on the floor”

Drug deaths 2000: 17k
Drug deaths 2020: 90k

- Break-up the open drug scenes
- Mandate treatment
- $1B for PSAs

StopFentanylDeaths.org
Families demand action NOW

Parents of poisoned children, parents of addicts, and neighborhood activists... we are finding each other.

DM or email me to get involved in our growing movement

@JoeBiden @DrBiden @GavinNewsom @JenSiebelNewsom

stopfentanyldeaths.org
For more information

environmentalprogress.org/california-pea…
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4 Jun
Environmentalists say climate change is an apocalyptic threat. But by forcing nuclear plants to close, they are increasing carbon emissions and making climate change worse. Why is that?

My latest @SubstackInc — please share, and subscribe!

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-environm…
I debated @NRDC at Yale University

Watch me debunk anti-nuclear lies, expose NRDC's financial conflicts of interest, and call into question the ethics of its silence on Chinese solar "genocide" panels

Part 1 of 3
Part 2 of 3
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2 Jun
“In 2020, the number of fentanyl deaths in the county more than doubled, and the victims were younger, on average, than in the previous two years”

Please RT to demand that @GavinNewsom & @JenSiebelNewsom break up the open drug scenes before more children are killed! Image
At our protest today, four parents of children who were killed by fentanyl poisoning will join @JacquiBerlinn who is trying to save her son from fentanyl

We need more parents & families to speak out to shut down the open drug scenes

Join us! Support the growing movement!
California spends more money on homelessness & mental illness than any other states but have far worse outcomes because we refuse to demand accountability from anyone — addicts, dealers, or government agencies
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31 May
“After having spent a long time attempting to act on these issues—long before Greta Thunberg was a household name—I’ve realised just how much of the problem comes down to energy density... The problems with nuclear power are not technological but political.” @ziontree
“Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)... is pushing for and achieving policies that are actually the opposite to effective climate action.”
“NRDC helped create and put $66 million in a Black Rock “Ex-Fossil Fuels Index Fund” stock fund that—in fact—invests heavily in natural gas companies.”

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/maybe-theyre…
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