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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities Hardcover – 12 Oct. 2021

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National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. 

Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.

Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at the problem.

What he discovered shocked him. The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities — Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland — had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them.

San Fransicko reveals that the underlying problem isn’t a lack of housing or money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors. The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.

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“San Fransicko is outstanding. Michael Shellenberger pries loose the truth about homelessness and housing in America in this myth-shattering book — and proposes tested, humane alternatives that work.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"San Fransicko is a lucid lesson in how self-serving ideological fads yank progressivism into a ditch, creating misery in the name of enlightenment. Shellenberger shows us one of the keys to running a city: knowing the difference between virtue signaling and getting results." — John McWhorter, linguist, writer for The Atlantic and The New York Times, and associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University

"Civilized urban life is a precious accomplishment — difficult to achieve and easy to squander. In this humane and reasoned book, Michael Shellenberger diagnoses the mistakes progressives made and maps out a practical, evidence-based path to improvement.”  — Steven Pinker, author, Enlightenment Now, and Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

"In his compassionate, pragmatic, and truly indispensable book, Michael Shellenberger takes on the devastation of the urban environment. The sprawl of chaotic tent encampments populated by psychotic and addicted people is a daunting problem — one that too many progressive authorities don’t know how to solve. Or, worse, don’t really want to. Shellenberger lays out a humane blueprint to help the suffering, revive the cities, and restore civic order.” — Sally Satel, M.D., Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, and Lecturer, Yale University School of Medicine.  

“In this compelling and well-written book, Shellenberger challenges many long-held shibboleths about how we think about cities and social policy. Required reading for us liberals as we try to reimagine what cities should do, look like and whose interests they should serve.” — Dalton Conley, Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

“What explains the shocking breakdown of public order in many of America’s leading cities? Michael Shellenberger, with the erudition and iconoclasm he is known for, shows how catastrophe can result when good intentions are combined with bad ideas. San Fransicko is devastating.” — Michael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite

“San Fransicko peels back layers of “progressive” rhetoric with peer reviewed science and data to show that the vast majority of California’s unsheltered residents suffer from drug and alcohol addiction, and complex medical conditions, that cannot be solved by a key to a hotel room or higher cash stipends. Fierce bullies who make a living “protecting” the homeless status quo are the villains of this catastrophe, enabled by the feckless electeds and hippie nostalgia of Baby Boomers. Enough.” — Jennifer Hernandez, civil rights lawyer

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Michael Shellenberger is the nationally bestselling author of Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko, a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” the winner of the 2008 Green Book Award from the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Center for Science Writings, and an invited expert reviewer of the next Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has written on energy and the environment for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Nature Energy, and other publications for two decades. Michael has broken major stories, including on the Twitter Files, for which he won the 2023 Dao Award for Journalism. He is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, an independent, nonpartisan research organization based in Berkeley, California.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper (12 Oct. 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0063093626
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0063093621
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 3.28 x 22.86 cm
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Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment," Green Book Award winner, and the founder and president of Environmental Progress. He is the best-selling author of "Apocalypse Never" and "San Fransicko" (HarperCollins, October 2021).

"Apocalypse Never is an extremely important book,” says historian Richard Rhodes, who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb. “Within its lively pages, Michael Shellenberger rescues with science and lived experience a subject drowning in misunderstanding and partisanship. His message is invigorating: if you have feared for the planet’s future, take heart.”

He has been called an “environmental guru,” “climate guru,” “North America’s leading public intellectual on clean energy,” and “high priest” of the environmental humanist movement for his writings and TED talks, which have been viewed over five million times.

Shellenberger advises policymakers around the world including in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium. In January 2020, Shellenberger testified before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives.

He has been a climate and environmental activist for over 30 years. He has helped save nuclear reactors around the world, from Illinois and New York to South Korea and Taiwan, thereby preventing an increase in air pollution equivalent to adding over 24 million cars to the road.

Shellenberger was invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2019 to serve as an independent Expert Reviewer of its next Assessment Report, to be published in 2022 his most recent Congressional testimony on the state of climate science, mitigation, and adaptation.

Shellenberger is a leading environmental journalist who has broken major stories on Amazon deforestation; rising climate resilience; growing eco-anxiety; the U.S. government’s role in the fracking revolution; and climate change and California’s fires.

He also writes on housing and homelessness and has called for California to declare a state of emergency with regards to its addiction, mental health, and housing crises. He has authored widely-read articles and reports on the topic including “Why California Keeps Making Homelessness Worse,” “California in Danger.”

His articles for Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and his TED talks ("How Fear of Nuclear Hurts the Environment," "Why I Changed My Mind About Nuclear Power" and “Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet”) have been viewed over six million times.

Shellenberger was featured in "Pandora's Promise," an award-winning film about environmentalists who changed their minds about nuclear, and appeared on "The Colbert Report." He debated Ralph Nader on CNN’s "Crossfire" and Stanford University’s Mark Jacobsen at UCLA . 

His research and writing have appeared in The Harvard Law and Policy Review, Democracy Journal, Scientific American, Nature Energy, PLOS Biology, The New Republic, and cited by the New York Times, Slate, USA Today, Washington Post, New York Daily News, The New Republic.

Shellenberger has been an environmental and social justice advocate for over 25 years. In the 1990s he helped save California’s last unprotected ancient redwood forest, and inspire Nike to improve factory conditions in Asia. In the 2000s, Michael advocated for a “new Apollo project” in clean energy, which resulted in a $150 billion public investment in clean tech between 2009 and 2015.

He lives in Berkeley, California and travels widely.

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  • M Perrott
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Pitfalls of Liberal Progressive Policy Making
    Reviewed in the United States on 28 December 2023
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    Michael Shellenberger's book is worth the read for many reasons. If you live in a Liberal Progsressive State/City, San Fransicko explains why the policies implemented by and the huge amounts of tax dollars spent by elected officials fail to solve the intertwined and seemingly intractable problems of drugs, homelessness, crime and other societal problems in these enclaves. If you live outside of CA in an increasingly majority Democratic Party city, San Fransicko explains where your City/County is likely headed, as a friend of mine recently learned, fleeing Austin, TX. This book covers Progressive policy making mechanics and the blueprint for how Liberal Progressive Politicians offload policy making and implementation for complex problems along with huge amounts of tax dollars to unaccountable NGOs. The book has loads of cited data sources coupled with human anecdotal stories to underscore the inhuman suffering caused by ill conceived policies that never seem to be corrected or address underlying factors such as Mental Health. As a native of San Francisco that visits 3-4 times a year, the book accurately depicts the decline of a once great city.
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    1.0 out of 5 stars Como cancelar a compra
    Reviewed in Brazil on 27 December 2023
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    Cliquei errado. Nao quero comprar a versao kindle
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  • George V Loughery
    5.0 out of 5 stars How Homelessness has Made Progressives Look Bad
    Reviewed in Canada on 24 December 2022
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    Too much drugs drive homeless trolls into the streets and the woke communities cannot deal with it. Speaks to how mental health amongst the homeless is a big issue Speaks to how housing initiatives miss the mark when the number of shelters has been decreased. A man made hell (somewhat like Dante's) has knowingly been created by the progressives who consistently have come up short. This book may have triggered some recent political moves to deal with mental health issues amongst the homeless. Depolicing and anarchy have not proven to be the right answer to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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  • Ofernandez
    5.0 out of 5 stars Me a Mexican reader,,
    Reviewed in Mexico on 12 May 2022
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    This reading is not just fundamental but obligatory to be read for everyone of us whose children no matter their ages are under this “flagelo umbrella” be ashamed just to hesitate and not to fight and pronounce against any kind of addiction our sons are prompt to fell at any given day of their way, let’s not be selfish and spread the word of addiction temptations out of our children sights .
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  • David Allen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Documentation of the facts that return us to respect and dignity
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 December 2021
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    America has a huge problem, but it doesn’t really understand why. Few people have been willing to take this issue on head-first like Shellenberger has with all the substantive evidence to support his theses. However, it is one thing to understand the problem and quite another to do something about it. I am a dual citizen, and was an elected member of Her Majesty’s government for 8 years, and have some clear views on why Europeans have done a much more effective job (as he cited with the Dutch) at confronting the truth and dealing with it…
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