Michael Shellenberger is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, and Time Magazine named him "Hero of the Environment" for 2008. Michael is a leading energy, security, and environmental expert. He advises policymakers around the world, including in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
“San Fransicko is outstanding. Michael Shellenberger pries loose
the truth about homelessness and housing in America in this
myth-shattering book — and proposes tested, humane alternatives
that work.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The
Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Civilized urban life is a precious accomplishment — difficult to
achieve and easy to squander. In this humane and reasoned book,
Michael Shellenberger diagnoses the mistakes progressives made and
maps out a practical, evidence-based path to improvement.” —
Steven Pinker, author, Enlightenment Now, and Johnstone Professor
of Psychology, Harvard University
"In his compassionate, pragmatic, and truly indispensable book,
Michael Shellenberger takes on the devastation of the urban
environment. The sprawl of chaotic tent encampments populated by
psychotic and addicted people is a daunting problem — one that too
many progressive authorities don’t know how to solve. Or, worse,
don’t really want to. Shellenberger lays out a humane blueprint to
help the suffering, revive the cities, and restore civic order.” —
Sally Satel, M.D., Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute,
and Lecturer, Yale University School of Medicine.
“In this compelling and well-written book, Shellenberger challenges
many long-held shibboleths about how we think about cities and
social policy. Required reading for us liberals as we try to
reimagine what cities should do, look like and whose interests they
should serve.” — Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor
of Sociology, Princeton University
“What explains the shocking breakdown of public order in many of
America’s leading cities? Michael Shellenberger, with the
erudition and iconoclasm he is known for, shows how catastrophe can
result when good intentions are combined with bad ideas. San
Fransicko is devastating.” — Michael Lind, author of The New Class
War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
“San Fransicko peels back layers of “progressive” rhetoric with
peer reviewed science and data to show that the vast majority of
California’s unsheltered residents suffer from drug and alcohol
addiction, and complex medical conditions, that cannot be solved by
a key to a hotel room or higher cash stipends. Fierce bullies
who make a living “protecting” the homeless status quo are the
villains of this catastrophe, enabled by the feckless electeds and
hippie nostalgia of Baby Boomers. Enough.” — Jennifer
Hernandez, civil rights lawyer
"Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book. Within its
lively pages, Michael Shellenberger uses science and lived
experience to rescue a subject drowning in misunderstanding and
partisanship. His message is invigorating: if you have feared for
the planet’s future, take heart." — Richard Rhodes, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb, on Apocalypse
Never
“We must protect the planet, but how? Some strands of the
environmental movement have locked themselves into a narrative of
sin and doom that is counterproductive, anti-human, and not
terribly scientific. Shellenberger advocates a more constructive
environmentalism that faces our wicked problems and shows what we
have to do to solve them.” — Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of
Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now, on
Apocalypse Never
"If there is one thing that we have learned from the coronavirus
pandemic, it is that strong passions and polarized politics lead to
distortions of science, bad policy, and potentially vast, needless
suffering. Are we making the same mistakes with environmental
policies? I have long known Michael Shellenberger to be a
bold, innovative, and nonpartisan pragmatist. He is a lover of the
natural world whose main moral commitment is to figure out what
will actually work to safeguard it. If you share that mission, you
must read Apocalypse Never.” — Jonathan Haidt, author of Righteous
Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion on
Apocalypse Never
"The painfully slow global response to human-caused climate change
is usually blamed on the political right’s climate change denial
and love affair with fossil fuels. But in this engaging and
well-researched treatise, Michael Shellenberger exposes the
environmental movement’s hypocrisy in painting climate change in
apocalyptic terms while steadfastly working against nuclear power,
the one green energy source whose implementation could feasibly
avoid the worst climate risks. Disinformation from the left has
replaced deception from the right as the greatest obstacle to
mitigating climate change." — Kerry Emanuel, professor of
atmospheric science, MIT, on Apocalypse Never
“Environmental issues are frequently confused by conflicting and
often extreme views, with both sides fueled to some degree by
ideological biases, ignorance and misconceptions. Michael
Shellenberger’s balanced and refreshing book delves deeply into a
range of environmental issues and exposes misrepresentations by
scientists, one-sided distortions by environmental organizations,
and biases driven by financial interests. His conclusions are
supported by examples, cogent and convincing arguments, facts and
source documentation. Apocalypse Never may well be the most
important book on the environment ever written.” — Tom Wigley,
climate scientist, University of Adelaide, former senior scientist
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and fellow,
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), on
Apocalypse Never
"San Fransicko is a lucid lesson in how self-serving
ideological fads yank progressivism into a ditch, creating misery
in the name of enlightenment. Shellenberger shows us one of the
keys to running a city: knowing the difference between virtue
signaling and getting results." — John McWhorter, linguist, writer
for The Atlantic and The New York Times, and associate professor of
English and comparative literature at Columbia University
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