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Environmentalism as Religion
This was not the first discussion of environmentalism as a religion, but it caught on and was widely quoted. Michael explains why religious approaches to the environment are inappropriate and cause damage to the natural world they intend to protect.
Commonwealth Club
San Francisco, CA
September 15, 2003
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"Increasingly it seems facts aren't necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief. It's about whether you are going to be a sinner, or saved. Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one of them."
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Science Policy in the 21st Century
We need better mechanisms to determine science policy. Michael outlined several issues before a joint meeting of liberal and conservative think tanks.
Joint Session AEI-Brookings Institution
Washington, D.C.
January 25, 2005
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"We have not developed mechanisms for decision-making that we all agree are fact-based and judicious; so that the results of such processes will be generally perceived to be fair and equitable. As a result, we often resolve environmental disputes through litigation, which is neither good public policy nor a sound basis for administrative rule-making."
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Aliens Cause Global Warming
An historical approach detailing how over the last thirty years scientists have begun to intermingle scientific and political claims.
The Michelin Lecture
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
January 17, 2003
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"I have no desire to discourage anyone from believing in either extraterrestrials or global warming. That would be quite impossible to do. Rather, I want to discuss the history of several widely-publicized beliefs and to point to what I consider an emerging crisis in the whole enterprise of science-namely the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy."
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