Talking Environmental Optimism | Michael Shellenberger
Rune Soup
Gordon White
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Time Magazine's Hero of the Environment and Green Book Award winner, Michael Shellenberger, joins the show this week.
Michael has been an environmental activist since his teens. He founded an Amnesty International chapter at his high school, he travelled to Nicaragua to support the Sandinistas in the 80s, he ran for governor of California, he has published multiple books and founded and runs Environmental Progress.
Michael is one of the world's leading public intellectuals when it comes to clean energy and he joins us today to talk about his latest book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored. |
| 0:12.0 | All the broken and shunned creatures. |
| 0:17.0 | Someone's got to care for them. |
| 0:19.0 | Who shall it be if not us? |
| 0:45.3 | Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania. |
| 0:49.2 | My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. |
| 0:51.7 | This week we welcome to the show Michael Schellenberger. Michael is a Time magazine Hero of the Environment, a Green Book Award winner, and one of the world's leading intellectuals in the field of clean energy. |
| 1:03.0 | He has been an environmental activist since his teen years, |
| 1:06.0 | founding Amnesty chapters while still in school, |
| 1:09.0 | traveling to Nicaragua in the 80s to help the Sandinistas, |
| 1:12.0 | and he even ran for governor of California in 2018 |
| 1:15.4 | Michael is also the president and founder of environmental progress he joins us |
| 1:21.2 | today to talk about his latest book, Apocalypse Never, Why Environmental |
| 1:25.0 | alarmism Hurts us All. |
| 1:27.0 | Michael, thank you very much for your time. |
| 1:29.0 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:31.0 | Nice one, nice one. |
| 1:32.0 | Well, congratulations on the book. |
| 1:35.6 | I guess the first question would be, |
| 1:38.9 | why did you write it and what's it about? Well, I had a lot of motivations actually, many, many motivations. |
| 1:47.0 | The book is really about three different things. |
| 1:51.0 | It's about, it's sort of the first part is a debunking of |
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