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16 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"If one wanted to destroy an economy from within, it would be hard to do a better job than what Germany is doing. Shutting down nuclear plants & replacing them with intermittent renewables, Germany has left itself and the EU vulnerable to shortages."

doomberg.substack.com/p/california-d…
"One need look no further than the explosion in the cost of electricity for proof of what this blitzkrieg of stupidity has accomplished. The full fallout from these blunders will continue to reverberate for years to come."
#Energiewendeschadenfreude
"The chances of a gusher of Russian gas arriving to swell depleted supplies by spring, meanwhile, are fading, after Moscow massed troops on its western flank. U.S. officials say the deployment could pave the way for an invasion of Ukraine in early 2022."

wsj.com/articles/energ…

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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
18 Dec
The decision by SF Mayor @LondonBreed to shut down open drug scenes is right, but SF lacks shelters, rehab clinics, group homes, and hospital psych beds. SF can’t solve this alone. We need a single state agency, Cal-Psych, to centralize care at facilities statewide at a low cost
Cal-Psych would be able to purchase shelter space, psychiatric beds, board and care facilities, and treatment facilities from across the state.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-californ…
Cal-Psych would do as much as legally, ethically, and practically possible to establish voluntary drug treatment and psychiatric care. It would also work with the courts and law enforcement to enforce involuntary care through assisted outpatient treatment and conservatorship.
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17 Dec
"'San Fransicko'" in San Francisco"

Commonwealth Club (110 The Embarcadero)

Mon, January 24th - Save the Date

5:30 pm Arrival
6:00 pm Program
7:00 pm Book Signing

This will be my first mainstream SF establishment event for "San Fransicko"

We're making progress

☺️
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“Breed was pushed to act in part because of Tenderloin leaders telling her ‘these conditions have made our lives almost unlivable, and damaging the psyche and well-being of our children,’ said Miller. 

❤️👏🏼

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
17 Dec
Defund the police activist in L.A. now fears gun threats at child's school

Defund the police activist in Oakland now so scared she removes her jewelry before pumping gas

LA Times defund activist admits "even Black Americans" don’t want to defund police

latimes.com/california/sto… Image
Last year, @latimes columnist @Erika_D_Smith called for defunding the police

She now admits that defunding the police was PR disaster but claims that covid is supposedly the cause of rising homicides, not the withdrawal of police & criminal emboldenment

latimes.com/california/sto…
It'a all already over for the progressives on crime. They lost. Why?

— Record homicides in Philly+12

— Emboldened criminals, from Walgreens to Louis Vuitton

— And the progressive denial of crime, the minimization of crime, and the gas-lighting of the public experiencing crime
Read 24 tweets
Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
16 Dec
Now that the mainstream media recognize that efforts to defund the police resulted in officer withdrawal & criminal emboldenment, progressives are attacking those who point out their complicity in rising homicides

Witness the making of a new Woke taboo:

sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justin…
Look at this effort to deny responsibility:

"While there is continuing debate about what is driving the violent crime increases... we know for a fact that 'defund had nothing to do with it. Because defund' never actually happened."

This is sleight-of-hand misinformation.
The reason Oakland didn't defund the police is because because, in response to a massive progressive effort to defund the police, the police withdrew, criminals were emboldened, homicides rose, and the Oakland mayor sought to reverse the cuts to the police budget:
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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
16 Dec
Until recently, the conventional wisdom was that nuclear energy was all but dead. But now, The Netherlands has joined UK & France in announcing a major expansion of nuclear. How did nuclear go from the margins to the mainstream? Here's the inside scoop

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/netherlands-…
Four years ago, the conventional wisdom in Europe was that the continent was transitioning to renewable energies. The cost of electricity from solar panels, wind turbines, and natural gas had declined significantly, and lithium batteries could soon replace natural gas.
And, held the consensus view, nuclear energy was going away; the main question was how soon existing nuclear plants could be dismantled.

Today, the conventional wisdom has changed radically.
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15 Dec
Critics of San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed claim that policing & jails never work anywhere to address drug addiction & dealing but that's ridiculous: nearly every developed nation arrests drug dealers and addicts and incarcerates them or mandates treatment

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It's true that sentences are not always long and the other developed nations have far better mental health and addiction care than we have.

But that's not an argument against arresting drug dealers and mandating treatment as an alternative to incarceration for addicts.
Moreover, California has a $31 billion surplus and San Francisco already spends between $80,000 and $100,000 on every "homeless" person in the city. Money is not the reason San Francisco doesn't treat addicts. Progressive activists who insist on special treatment of victims are.
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