You think Greenpeace is Green Wrong? 100% WindSolar would EQUAL the biggest disruption and destruction of nature in recorded human history” their would be machines everywhere” were there are machines there are people” if there are people were is nature were is wildlife” we need to stay away from Nature leave it alone?

1. OhioEnergy
Climate Stabilization &
Reducing Carbon & GHG
Emissions: Innovative
Technology vs. Regulation
Michael Shellenberger, President & Founder
Environmental Progress, Oakland, CA
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
8:55 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

2.
wwwEnvironmentalProgress.org
Michael Shellenberger, Founder and President
Michael Shellenberger is a leading global thinker on energy and the environment. Over
the last decade, Shellenberger and his colleagues have constructed a new paradigm that
views universal prosperity, cheap energy, and nuclear power as the keys to
environmental progress.
Michael is a Time Magazine "Hero of the
Environment" and winner of the Green Book Award
for his (and Ted Nordhaus') 2007 book, Break
Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the
Politics of Possibility, which Wired called "the best
thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel
Carson's Silent Spring."
Michael's research is regularly cited and published in
the New York Times, Slate, USA Today, and
theWashington Post. He has appeared on The Colbert Report and CNN's Crossfire. He is co‐
founder and Senior Fellow at Breakthrough Institute, where he was president from 2003 ‐
2015. His recent TEDx talk is "How Humans Save Nature."
Over the years, Michael has been profiled in the New York Times, Wired, the San Francisco
Chronicle, the National Review, The New Republic, and on NPR.
He is co‐author of seminal reports and essays that have re‐shaped how people think about
climate change, technology and the environment, including Climate Pragmatism, Post‐Partisan
Power, Coal Killer, Love Your Monsters, The Death of Environmentalism, and An Ecomodernist
Manifesto. In the 1990s, he helped protect the last significant groves of old‐growth redwoods
still in private hands, and successfully forced labor improvements to Nike factories in Asia.

3. How Humans Save Nature
Michael Shellenberger, President
Environmental Progress

6. How Humans Save Nature

7. We save nature by not using it

8. Source: National Archives (UK)

9. “GRAND BALL GIVEN BY THE WHALES IN HONOR OF
THE DISCOVERY OF THE OIL WELLS IN PENNSYLVANIA.”

10. Nature
53%
Crops 12%
Wood 9%
Cities 3%
Meat 24%
Humans use half of Earth
Source: Breakthrough analysis based on Ramankutty et al. (2008), Erb et al. (2007), and FAO (2010)

11. Humans save nature by…

12. 1. Not needing nature

13. Source: Shutterstock

15. 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2013
Yield(tonnes/ha)
6.0
4.5
3.0
1.5
0.0
Maize
Rice
Wheat
Soy
MORE FOOD FROM LESS LAND
Source: Breakthrough analysis based on latest available FAOstat data

16. HALF AS MUCH LAND PER PERSON
1960 20121970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Cropland Pastureland Total Farmland per capita
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
Source: Breakthrough analysis based on latest FAOstat data and UN population data

17. Credit: David Foster
Harvard College Source: Harvard Forest, Harvard University

18. Source: Shutterstock

19. 2. Having smaller families

20. Source: Nature Unbound, Breakthrough Institute analysis of UN World
Population Prospects (2015)
1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005 2015
2.10
1.58
1.05
0.53
Population Growth Rate peaked in late 1960s

21. 0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
2020
2030
2040
2050
2060
2070
2080
2090
2100
‘80 ‘20 ‘40 ‘60 ‘80
Populationinbillions
Source: Breakthrough analysis of UN World Population Prospects (2015) and Lutz, W, Butz,
W, eds. (2014).
High Energy
Small Families
Low Energy
Big Families
1960 2000 2100

22. 3. Using high-tech energy

24. Virunga National Park

26. Pittsburgh, 1940 Pittsburgh, 2015
Environmental Progress

27. Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014

28. Source: Wikipedia Commons

29. Land used for
energy, 2010
300 mi
Source: Breakthrough analysis based on Jacobson, M. Z. & Delucchi, M. A.
Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power. Energy Policy 39, 1154–1169 (2011).

30. 100% nuclear
in 2050
300 mi
Source: Breakthrough analysis based on American Nuclear Society data

31. 100%
Renewables
2050
300 mi
Source: Breakthrough analysis based on Jacobson, M. Z. & Delucchi, M. A.
Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power. Energy Policy 39, 1154–1169 (2011).

32. Energy

35. Source:
Shellenberger,
US EPA Data,
2015

36. Trembath, Breakthrough, EPA data, 2014

38. Jessica Lovering
Breakthrough Institu

39. Todd Moss & Ben Leo, Center for Global D
January 2014, http://www.cgdev.org/blog/
vs-renewables-opic-w

40. Source: Tim Searching et al, Science, 20

44. "I happen to believe there
is a problem with climate
change. I don't want to
overreact to it, I can't
measure it all, but I
respect the creation that
the Lord has given us
and I want to make sure
we protect it.”
— John Kasich, July
2015

45. Nature
53%
Crops 12%
Wood 9%
Cities 3%
Meat 24%
Today we leave half of Earth for nature.

46. Nature
75%
Crops 6%
Wood 3%
Cities 6%
Meat 10%
Can we leave 75% for nature?