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Michael Shellenberger is an environmental activist who has until recently been one of the \u201cdarlings\u201d of the Lefterds who want to change our utilities so drastically that even electricity will become unaffordable for the average homeowner or apartment resident.<\/p>\n
He is still an environmentalist, but is no longer someone who is hysterical about whether or not the planet is going to burn up in ten (10) years, and has published \u201cApocalypse Never\u201d as a rebuttal to the ecohippies and so-called environmentalists, as well as the more greedy, money-grubbing political animals that we have in our midst.<\/p>\n
The article at the link is his description of how he was treated by the House of Representatives when he appeared at their request (demand) to \u2018splain himself, but would not let him do so, and the chairperson abruptly ended the hearing.<\/p>\n
I repeat:\u00a0 It is very telling that not only did the Democrats – who called the hearing – refuse to listen to him, but also shut the hearing down quite abruptly to stop his input. If this hearing was set up in response to the publication of “Apocalypse Never”. and they think that the planned multi-trillion dollar Green Agenda is threatened by what he published, they are scared. And they should be.\u00a0 How much cash is going into their pockets that they will lose if the Green Agenda is not carried out?<\/p>\n
The full article is at the link below.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/07\/29\/why-democrats-are-trying-to-shut-me-up-about-climate-change-and-renewables\/<\/a><\/p>\n He is one of those people like Michael Moore, the bloated behemoth who suddenly switched gears a few months ago when he was helicoptered over a solar power installation in the desert, one that sits right on a migratory path for North American birds, and is not only destructive of wildlife, but also the environment itself.\u00a0 Moore’s eyes were abruptly opened to the destructive results of these installations, and likewise,\u00a0Shellenberger\u2019s eyes were literally opened to the falsehoods of renewable energy.<\/p>\n There are others like Shellenberger, former rabid environmentalists who got thumped in the head by Mr. Reality when they realized that their demands being met will result in more destruction than benefit to generations down the road. Those people have, like Shellenberger, gone from being \u201cwoke\u201d (walking dead) to being aware of reality, with the added reality of being on lockdown over CV19 restricting their freedom\u00a0 and changing it into the nasty “do what I tellsya or else\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n This is from the article:<\/p>\n Nations that partner with Russia or China to build nuclear plants are effectively absorbed into their sphere of influence. The line between soft power and hard power runs through nuclear energy. On the one side is cheap and clean electricity. On the other, a stepping stone to a weapons program.<\/p>\n During today\u2019s hearing, several Democratic members claimed that renewables today are cheaper than existing grid electricity. But if that were true, I replied, why do solar and wind developers require hundreds of billions of dollars from American taxpayers in the form of subsidies?<\/p>\n The Democrats are basing their climate agenda on what California did. But California\u2019s electricity rates since 2011 rose six times more than they did in the rest of the US, thanks mainly to the deployment of renewables and the infrastructure they require, such as transmission lines.<\/p>\n Instead of answering that question, Democrats claimed that solar and wind projects were somehow part of the battle for environmental justice. In reality, I noted, solar and wind projects are imposed on poorer communities and successfully resisted by wealthier ones.<\/p>\n In fact, a major new report\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0nearly 200 cases of human rights violations when renewable energy projects were imposed on poor communities.\u00a0In Hawaii and Nebraska, indigenous leaders\u00a0are<\/a>\u00a0resisting wind energy projects that threaten native bird species, including the nene and whooping crane, whose number one cause of mortality is transmission lines.<\/p>\n Renewables also hurt working people by raising the cost of electricity for industries that offer good jobs with high pay. From 2011 to 2018, California\u2019s industrial electricity prices\u00a0rose<\/a>\u00a032 percent, while the average price in the other 49 states fell one percent.\u00a0The good manufacturing jobs in renewables are mostly in China, which makes most of the world\u2019s solar panels, including America\u2019s, while the US is stuck with temporary low-wage service jobs installing solar panels and wind turbines, and doing energy efficiency retrofits.\u00a0By contrast, nuclear power plants, which can operate for 80 years or longer,\u00a0require<\/em>\u00a0high-wage, high-skilled, and permanent jobs for multiple generations.<\/p>\n What\u2019s going on? Why do Democrats, who imagine themselves to be on the side of working people and the poor, advocate for renewables and against nuclear?\u00a0It\u2019s hard not to notice that some of the Democrats\u2019 largest donors, including\u00a0Tom Steyer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Mike Bloomberg<\/a>, are renewable energy and natural gas investors.<\/em> Even one of my main antagonists, Rep.\u00a0Casten<\/a>, was a renewable energy investor before joining Congress.\u00a0 – article (Italics are mine.)<\/p>\n Note: the Democrats use the term \u201cenvironmental justice\u201d, a seemingly clever bit of lingo that, on the surface, appears to infer a beneficial outcome. The reality is that it is jabberwocky: verbal noise that infers an outcome when there is none, but will result in near bankruptcy of our economy and stall growth.\u00a0 The level of corruption that runs through Congress is far higher now than it used to be. Always follow the money. Who is really profiting from renewables? Always follow the money trail. Always<\/em>.<\/p>\n Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine<\/em>\u00a0\u201cHero of the Environment,\u201d and president of Environmental Progress, an independent research and policy organization. He is the author of\u00a0Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I suggest supporting him by getting a copy of his book and making your own decisions.\u00a0 Also, I applaud you for taking the time to read this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"