He sees a return to simple life as a fatal mistake. The environmentalist Michael Shellenberger advocates combining climate protection and technology.
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Rainforests are cleared to produce palm oil. This is bad. But thanks to the increased production of palm oil, the price of oil collapsed – and with it the number of whales killed. Palm oil plantation in Sumatra.
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In the 1990s, Michael Shellenberger traveled to Brazil to campaign for landless farmers. The young Californian idealized the simple rural life, was committed to socialist cooperatives and was outraged at the deforestation of the rainforest.
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