What Michael Shellenberger thinks about America
American writer; co-founded the Breakthrough Institute in 2003 and founded Environmental Progress in 2016. Author of Apocalypse Never (2020) and San Fransicko (2021); publishes Public, a newsletter on politics, energy and free speech.
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3 dated positions, 2021, in their own words. Our reading of what Michael Shellenberger has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsthe continued expansion of weather-dependent renewables will increase electricity costs and blackouts across the United States, as they did in California and Texas.
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Their wordsBut at the state level, closing nuclear plants spikes emissions, as both New York and California prove, and New York and if half of America's nuclear plants close over the next decade, as they are predicted to do, they will be replaced mostly by natural gas.
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Our readingExpanding nuclear power could reduce the need for President Biden's renewable energy agenda.
Their wordsBut Biden's renewable energy agenda is unnecessary for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. could simply expand nuclear power instead.
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