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If Western civilisation is to persist, it needs more than anything else to save its science, because otherwise our civilisation will be conquered and replaced.

It’s only a question of when and how it fails — and of how big the political blowback will be when that happens.

Civilization depends on cheap energy, and we are right to expect that our political leaders put the provision of it above electoral politics.

Guest “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” by David Middleton While there is a lot to dislike about the Deficit Reduction Act of 2022, it’s infinitely better than…

Michael Shellenberger highlighting a New York Fed report which trashes the idea that climate change is a threat to the US financial system.

Guest “Reality can be a harsh teacher” by David Middleton The world is already in an “energy crisis” of sorts due to the tremendous misallocation of capital from functioning energy…

In Apocalypse Never, I point to a pattern. Malthusians raise the alarm about a resource or environmental problems and then attack the obvious technical solutions. Malthus had to attack birth control to predict overpopulation.

Sceptics hoping to counter the mounting hysteria and calls for dramatic action to combat the ‘Climate Emergency,’ may want to ensure they are properly informed on the issues, in contrast to those that boldly claim that...

The British Financial Times, like most British mainstream media, normally takes a radical green pro climate action stance. So it is a pleasant change to see the FT arguing against accepting every wild climate claim at face...

2018 Sagan Prize winner, Peter Gleick, has written a review of Michael Shellenberger’s new book, Apocalypse Never and it’s been getting a lot of links from Shellenberger’s critics.

Guest “nothing to add” by David Middleton Michael Schellenberger’s Environmental Progress page has published a very cool slide deck, related to his new book Apocalypse Never...

One of the sentences young journalists used as a training exercise when they were learning to type was “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” It probably still is; you find discussions of it on websites around...

Guest “attaboy” by David Middleton Dec 4, 2019 Why Climate Alarmism Hurts Us All Michael Shellenberger I write about energy and the environment...

Guest “attaboy” by David Middleton Dec 4, 2019 Why Climate Alarmism Hurts Us All Michael Shellenberger I write about energy and the environment...

Guest “attaboy” by David Middleton Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment” and Green Book Award Winner Michael Shellenberger slaps down the apocalyptic climate change propagandists… Nov 25, 2019Why Apocalyptic...