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Mycle Schneider is listed as an ecologist, activist and environmentalist. Awards on record include Right Livelihood Award (1997).
My Take
What I admire about Mycle Schneider is the quiet discipline of his work. He isn't a headline-chasing celebrity but an independent voice in one of the most contested fields imaginable, nuclear energy, and he answers it with data rather than slogans. As lead author of the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Reports, he has spent decades giving lawmakers numbers they can't easily spin, and his 1997 Right Livelihood Award reads to me as recognition of patient, unglamorous integrity. A German based in Paris, working across borders on a global question, he embodies the kind of expert I trust most: thorough, independent, and unafraid to be inconvenient.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mycle Schneider
- Name (Japanese)
- マイケル・シュナイダー
- Reading
- まいける・しゅないだー
- Born
- 1959
- Origin
- Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Occupation
- ecologist / activist / environmentalist / university teacher / consultant
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Boar
2. Background
Awards & achievements
- 1997 Right Livelihood Award
3. Links
4. About this entry
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Mycle Schneider from?
Mycle Schneider is from Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
What does Mycle Schneider do?
Mycle Schneider works as ecologist, activist, environmentalist, university teacher, consultant.