Greta Thunberg’s climate crusade is heading for defeat | Michael Shellenberger interview

It's easier to tell people a lie than it is to convince people they've been lied to.

I grew up in South MS in the early 70s. My work has afforded me the opportunity to spend 6+ months in 37 different countries over the last 40 years. There is 1 thing that every country has that i see as the bedrock of a lot of problems. From the richest, like Germany to the poorest like Haiti, the lack of basic knowledge is overwhelming. At a time when everyone has unlimited access to information, the thirst for truth has been replaced by political propaganda. The willingness to defer to authority has overtaken the need for understanding.

And lifting the poorest people out of poverty is going to take energy.

Michael Shellenberger is such a great speaker. The first 10 minutes is brilliant. Wish I could speak like he does. He really know his stuff.

I miss the good ole days when we just lived our lives and enjoyed them.

Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion: 1). A bunch of middle class teenagers who've never lived in a house with a temperature below 22°C, never seen their kitchen cupboards empty, and never been disappointed at Christmas desperately searching for a cause that portrays them as a victim fighting for survival. 2). A bunch of retirees who themselves had a middle class childhood feeling no longer useful to society and unloved or even despised by the younger generation's accusations that they had it easy, desperate to show their relevance and usefulness in support of that younger generation's "struggle". Both cases can be summed up in a single word: narcissism.

When I first learned in grade school about how the general scientific consensus centuries ago was that the Earth was the center of the universe, I tried to imagine what conversations must have been like at the time, especially with those who held dissenting views. Little did I know, just a couple of decades later, I would not need to imagine anymore.

When is YouTube going to figure out their Context notes are counter productive like the Streisand Effect?

I live in Sweden. I drive a new Dacia on Diesel and "Ad Blue". I heat my house by warmth coming from deep earth (bergvärme) and I burn wood. I live inside the forest and I protect the trees, I also use the wood coming from these trees. I have a few solar panels. No climate hysterics for me!

I've seen the young man who conducts these interviews before. He does an excellent job. He asks a question and lets his interview answer. He also asks excellent questions. Good work Dude!

It's interesting how Michael Shellenberger sounds very much like Victor Davis Hanson - both very educated, wise and level-headed in approach and pleasant in demeanor. More power to them and their likes!

Mr Shellenburger does a great job describing the religion of climate activists. The comparison to the judeo-chriastian tradition was spot on.

Climate anxiety as expressed in a TV show in the US: "..It really makes everything we do seem really stupid and pointless. Why go to school? Why have a career? Why raise a family? It's all going to be over in a few years anyway." The catch? This is from the sitcom "Family Ties", Season 7 Episode 21, "Rain Forests Keep Falling On My Head", which aired 34 years ago in 1989.

Most excellent interview! The interviewer asked great questions, then kept quiet and listened to Michael’s answers. Super!

Michael is so straight and true on so many topics and has super relevant evidence at hand for all of them. One smart fellow!

Most common sense I have heard in a long time. Great interview .

I like how youtube is still putting warning labels under anything they disagree with 😂

I first heard of Michael Shellenberger over a decade ago. He participated in a documentary endorsing nuclear power as one aid in lowering global warming. "Pandora's Promise". It was very enlightening.

Glad to see Telegraph take a stand and let people hear out common sense

Carbon is necessary for plant growth and life as a whole. Carbon is also renewable.