The Ecomodernist

In the spring of 2015, Michael Shellenberger joined 17 environmental activists in signing a manifesto that would promote the belief that renewable energy is not enough to stop the harmful effects of climate change. The group further posited that an answer to this environmental threat could be clean energy, the largest source of which is nuclear power. They called themselves ecomodernists.

As expected, the manifesto was disparaged and condemned; its authors pilloried and denounced by those, of course, who thought otherwise. And yet they prevailed, gaining more converts through the