Andy, please consider that Shellenberger always put visibility over veracity.
Jesse Jenkins, a former BTI analyst, immediately debunked the Ecomodernist Manifesto's critique of wind power.
The BTI has almost always overplayed issues with energy efficiency and renewables and underplayed issues with nuclear.
The original Death of Environmentalism simply ignored the huge amount of work mainstream environmental groups had already put into the “innovation agenda” BTI claimed to have invented. (See, e.g., active support for federal and state R&D, tax credits, net metering, system benefits charges for efficiency and renewables, and Renewable Portfolio Standards.)
Shellenberger has just become more extreme in his writing, political thinking, and self-promotion.
I consider BTI to be very convincing regarding their approach to the energy transition. Curious about examples you might be able to share about the overplayed and underplayed issues you refer to in your comment.
Here's my analogy that goes back to the environmentalism of youth- real environmentalism IMO. Since a young boy in Cincinnati, circa 1950, I've loved the common Box turtle. Even then , they were becoming victims of degraded habitats, crisscrossed with roads and killer vehicles. My family left Ohio in 1955, and I made a trip back in 1995 to study the populations and distribution of Box turtles in the two areas in and near Cincinnati where I had lived. I spent two days questioning many residents. Had they seen any Box turtles? No, not a single resident had seen any in years. I drove further and further out in to the country where the answer was- "No", or occasionally "Yes. I saw one a year or two ago". The environmentalism of my youth, and the one I've taught so many students is- love of our fellow creatures and protection of their habitat. Humans are crowding out Box turtles and so many other creatures by reducing and degrading their habitats. Isn't the same thing happening and proposed for out coastal waters?
Nice job!
Thank you, Andy. This is so important.
Andy, please consider that Shellenberger always put visibility over veracity.
Jesse Jenkins, a former BTI analyst, immediately debunked the Ecomodernist Manifesto's critique of wind power.
The BTI has almost always overplayed issues with energy efficiency and renewables and underplayed issues with nuclear.
The original Death of Environmentalism simply ignored the huge amount of work mainstream environmental groups had already put into the “innovation agenda” BTI claimed to have invented. (See, e.g., active support for federal and state R&D, tax credits, net metering, system benefits charges for efficiency and renewables, and Renewable Portfolio Standards.)
Shellenberger has just become more extreme in his writing, political thinking, and self-promotion.
Yes indeed on the "more extreme"...
I consider BTI to be very convincing regarding their approach to the energy transition. Curious about examples you might be able to share about the overplayed and underplayed issues you refer to in your comment.
Here's my analogy that goes back to the environmentalism of youth- real environmentalism IMO. Since a young boy in Cincinnati, circa 1950, I've loved the common Box turtle. Even then , they were becoming victims of degraded habitats, crisscrossed with roads and killer vehicles. My family left Ohio in 1955, and I made a trip back in 1995 to study the populations and distribution of Box turtles in the two areas in and near Cincinnati where I had lived. I spent two days questioning many residents. Had they seen any Box turtles? No, not a single resident had seen any in years. I drove further and further out in to the country where the answer was- "No", or occasionally "Yes. I saw one a year or two ago". The environmentalism of my youth, and the one I've taught so many students is- love of our fellow creatures and protection of their habitat. Humans are crowding out Box turtles and so many other creatures by reducing and degrading their habitats. Isn't the same thing happening and proposed for out coastal waters?
Thank you!