Michael Shellenberger Books

Michael Shellenberger is not the sort of author you expect to see listed on a Conservative book site. But there may be hope yet for this progressive.

Called a “Hero of the Environment” by Time Magazine he’s a leading climate activist and has advised policy makers in the US, UK, Netherlands, Japan and South Korea.

What makes Shellenberger unique is that, like Bjorn Lomborg, he takes a balanced approach to the environment and warns against alarmists. He’s also leading the charge to look again at the benefits of nuclear energy.

In addition to his environmental writing and activism he’s also written on homelessness and housing, again in a surprising fashion. Having lives in the San Francisco area for over 30 years his politics finally caught up with the reality staring him in the face: that Leftist policies were only making things worse.

Shellenberger’s columns have been published in everything from Forbes, to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

The Left talks a lot about homelessness, inequality and crime. So how do their policies work out in the real world.

Michael Shellenberger, a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years has advocated for progressive policies and has seen them put into action, from decriminalization of drugs, to affordable housing rules, to alternatives to jain. But living the reality of the results, he’s come to realize that these policies had the opposite effect: homelessness grew, overdoses spiked and crime became rampant.

Shellenberger has come to realize that progressive policies enabled individuals to sink lower, while attracting those who would exploit this newfound “generosity.”

Red pilled, he has the shocking revelation for a Leftists that the issue isn’t a lack of funding for social programs, but the funding itself, which turns people into victims and permits them to follow down a path of self harm.

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

A lifelong environmental activist, Michael Shellenberger has a message few on the Left can handle: climate change isn’t the end of the world.

More shocking still, he makes the case that things are legitimately getting better. Carbon emissions peaked decades ago and are on the decline, deaths from extreme weather are down 80 percent over the last 40 years, and the risk of the Earth warming significantly is miniscule.

Yes, these are the findings, not of some coal industry think tank, but of a true environmentalist.

So why do we constantly hear that the world is on the verge of being destroyed in the next decade? According to Shellenberger its a mix of financial interests, a desire for power, but most of all the concept that environmentalism is a new religion adopted by those who desire to preach fear and guilt.

Break Through: Why We Can’t Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists

A detailed followup to their essay “The Death of Environmentalism,” Michael Shellenberger and co-author Ted Nordhaus have published their treatise on how to pragmatically take on the issue of climate change.

Critical of traditional Lefist policies and solutions, they argue for a reset on what the real issues are and what can be done to solve them.

Rather than a fear based concept, they focus on hope, showing the great change that’s already been made and what we can do to continue to be stewards of this planet.