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Restoring Sanity in an Age of Hysteria: Energy, Environment, and Free Speech

Public Discussion
Aug
1
Friday
2:40 PM–3:40 PM
MOL Main Stage
The language of the event: English with Hungarian translator

In recent years, debates over climate change, energy, and free expression have become battlegrounds in a wider cultural conflict. Apocalyptic rhetoric dominates environmental discourse, while rational, science-based solutions, such as nuclear energy, are often dismissed in favor of ideology and fear. At the same time, freedom of speech is increasingly under threat from censorship, media bias and the growing intolerance of dissenting voices. What went wrong in climate activism? Why are facts losing ground to narrative? How can the West defend it's prosperity and liberty? Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on the main dilemmas of the West!

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Michael Shellenberger
Bestselling Author, CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin
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Leonardo Orlando
Research Psychologist, Visiting Fellow at MCC
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Liliana Smiech
Director General for International Affairs at Ludovika University of Public Service
Moderator:
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Krisztián László
Senior International Relations Coordinator at MCC
 
 
 
 

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