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5 Nov, 10 tweets, 3 min read
I am very pro-nuclear but sometimes I say things that upset other pro-nuclear people. This has sometimes made building a pro-nuclear movement difficult. But I believe that powerful & lasting movements must rest on upon the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Today there exists around the world an authentic, grassroots, and mostly volunteer pro-nuclear movement that did not exist 5 years ago. Building it required blood, sweat, and tears. But now, 10 years after Fukushima, it is succeeding spectacularly.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-the-pro-…
I am proud to be building another grassroots movement, this one for saving our cities and our fellow humans from the disaster of open illicit drug markets which killed 96,000 Americans last year, up from 17k in 2000.

californiapeacecoalition.org
Again my commitment is to building a pro-human mental health movement based on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, even if it sometimes rubs some allies the wrong way.
I am happy to be a heretic among heretics. I believe we should arrest drug dealers, shut down drug markets, and make rehab an alternative to prison, not optional.

But it's also clear to me that it's foolish to think we can stop drugs from coming into the US.
Sometimes organizations and movements can sustain differences of opinion, and sometimes they can't. But having done this work now, professionally, for 25 years, I know that I can't live with myself unless I'm telling the truth, as best as I can, at all times.
It's not easy to do so on Twitter, or even in Substack, and so I also now write books, often long ones. I welcome debate and conversation, unlike too many of my critics. I just ask you to read what I write first:

I am a human being with an ego and thus am reluctant to admit I am wrong, but I have a fairly good track record not only of admitting to when I'm wrong, but also issuing corrections, and even creating entire TEDx talks built around *why* I was wrong

Here are the corrections to Apocalypse Never

environmentalprogress.org/corrections
Here are the corrections to San Fransicko

environmentalprogress.org/san-fransicko-…

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🔥from @JohnHMcWhorter @MSNBC
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It's worth it just for its list of wokeism's contradictions (e.g., "Show interest in multiculturalism/Do not culturally appropriate"). ImageImage
"Why do so many wise people elevate these tenants as wisdom? The reason cannot be logic, because there is none. The reason is because these tenets serve a purpose other than the one they are purported to serve. Namely, each component by itself serves to condemn whites as racist."
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The mayors of many progressive cities act helpless to stop the spread of homeless encampments, but Boston's mayor proves they can be humanely shut down so long as you a) recognize they're actually open air drug scenes & b) stand up to @ACLU

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Almost everything people believe about "homelessness" is wrong. The word "homeless" is a propaganda word designed to mislead you into thinking the people on the street are there because they are poor rather than because they are suffering from untreated mental illness & addiction
Don't take my word for it.

"It was advocates who coined the phrase, ‘homeless,'" the U of Penn's Dennis Culhane, America's leading academic homelessness expert, told me. “They’re the ones who thought ‘homeless’ would be a soft, fluffy term for the public to be sympathetic to.” ImageImageImage
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5 Nov
The Biden admin. talks tough on budget, climate, and OPEC, but it is being publicly humiliated daily

“Saudi Arabia & OPEC not only refused to boost output but declined to make even a token gesture to placate Washington. It was nothing but a flat-out no”

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Now, Biden has to match words with action or risk looking impotent… the biggest problem is that his administration’s public diplomacy failed to move OPEC, underlining the limits of its influence with a group that once used to pay close attention to what Washington had to say.”
There are short term fixes but the only real solution is to increase US oil and gas production. The problem with both short and long term fixes is that they further expose the fraudulence of the administration’s supposed commitment to climate action, particularly electric cars
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4 Nov
A lot of people were shocked by how badly Democrats lost in Tuesday's elections, but many had warned that progressives were out of touch with the electorate. Why didn't the Democrats listen?

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-progress…
Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, progressives have argued that taking back power required Democrats to move Left, aggressively confront structural racism, and stand firmly with the teachers’ unions, environmentalists, and criminal justice reformers.
But the election of a Republican as governor of Virginia, the election of Republicans in NY & NJ, and the repudiation of progressives in Seattle & Minneapolis on criminal justice, suggest that voters are turning against progressives on race, education, and crime.
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4 Nov
Paul Krugman says voters shouldn’t be mad at Biden because he has no control over the price of gasoline, but that’s absurd: the US is the world’s largest producer of oil; Biden froze new oil/ gas leases in January; and he may open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower prices.
Biden doesn’t agree with @paulkrugman that he’s not capable of lowering oil prices. Biden has been pressuring OPEC to produce more for weeks

But, as Bloomberg’s @JavierBlas notes, Saudi Arabia & Russia are producing at or above pre-covid levels & “it’s the US who’s lagging”
It’s true that part of the reason that the US is not producing more oil and gas is because the sector expanded too quickly between 2010-2015, and US firms since have been wary to invest in new production.

But oil prices rose after 2015 & we did not see more investment
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3 Nov
There are still people who say nuclear energy has no future but China just announced it will spend nearly a half trillion dollars building 150 new reactors over the next 15 years. That’s more than the rest of the world has built over the last 35 years. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Nuclear is much, much more important than climate change, as I argue in a major new piece for @unherd

- Emissions in Europe & US in 2020 were 26% and 22% below 1990 levels

- Global emissions will peak soon

- Global temps won't likely hit 3°C

unherd.com/2021/11/climat…
Events of the last few days have spectacularly confirmed that

- nations pursue nuclear primarily for non-climate reasons (e.g., reliability, security of supply)

- nations do not decide their energy policy at UN meetings

- under-investing in reliable energy is deadly
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