Michael Shellenberger - December 10, 2024
A Liberty Forum Special Event
Behind the War on Free Speech
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 | 7:00 pm PST
Michael Shellenberger
Investigative journalist and bestselling author Michael Shellenberger will join us to discuss the war by governments and elites around the world to impose mass censorship on the public. Shellenberger will describe how his colleagues have uncovered mass censorship efforts by governments from the US to Europe to Brazil, and what must be done to end them. Please join us for a rousing lecture followed by Shellenberger selling and signing his bestselling books, Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:
Michael Shellenberger is the C.B.R. Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin, Founder of Public, and Founder and President of Civilization Works, formerly Environmental Progress.
As a highly acclaimed journalist Michael Shellenberger has broken major stories, including on the Twitter Files, for which he won the 2023 Dao Award for journalism; the Censorship Industrial Complex; San Francisco’s cash incentives for homelessness; the “Amazon Forest are the lungs of the world” myth; climate pseudoscience; climate anxiety; the U.S. government support for fracking; and forest management, climate change, and California’s fires.
Shellenberger offers testimony as a journalist and policy expert to the U.S. Congress on various issues covering free speech, censorship, and the environment. He has testified on censorship in Brazil; the Censorship Industrial Complex, Part 2; AI and censorship; climate change and public health; Big Tech censorship; the Censorship Industrial Complex, Part 1; climate change and the global energy crisis; Texas & California electrical grid failures; climate change and agriculture; climate change and health; climate change and energy; and nuclear energy.
Michael is a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment,"Green Book Award winner, and Dao Journalism Prize Winner. He is the best-selling author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities and Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.
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