Michael Shellenberger is an American author whose work is mostly centered around the intersection of climate change, policy, and politics. He authored Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, Apocalypse Never: How the Left’s New Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, and San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. Shellenberger also has a political history, running as a Democratic candidate for Governor of California in 2018 and again as a “No Party Preference” candidate in 2022. Shellenberger and colleagues released An Ecomodernist Manifesto, which discussed possibilities for economic prosperity while simultaneously protecting the environment.

Shellenberger is a graduate of the Peace and Global Studies program at Earlham College. He also received an MA in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.