Michael Shellenberger

Why Saving Civilization Requires Saving California.

California is a mess. It has 100,000 people living on the streets, most using hard drugs and suffering mental illness. Its badly managed forests just went up into flames. And it faces the worst financial crisis in a generation. What’s going on? In this talk, heretical environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, author of the best-selling Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, describes who is destroying California, who failed to stand up to them, and why we need a new politics to solve our toughest problems and save our civilization.   

A recent article in Forbes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/08/24/stop-blaming-climate-change-for-californias-fires-many-forests-including-the-redwoods-need-them/#7ba84d4f70b3