Ozzie Zehner is an author and visiting scholar. He was the author of '' Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism'', and co-producer of the 2019 environmental documentary ''

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''. He grew up in

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, and is a graduate of

Kettering University Kettering University is a private university in Flint, Michigan. It offers Bachelor of Science, bachelor of science and master's degree, master’s degrees in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, STEM (science, technology, engineeri ...

and the

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. In the ''

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'', Mark W. Anderson writes, in an article about stereotypes about environmentalists, that Ozzie Zehner has exposed the adverse effects of supposedly “clean energy.” He writes, “Zehner makes clear that… healthy future will require much more from us than shifting from fossil fuels to the chimera of clean energy.” He quotes Zehner as saying, “ e ‘energy crisis’ is more cultural than technological in nature.” In ''

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'', Ozzie Zehner writes, in response to critics of a previous article by him in the same publication, that there are limits to measuring

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: “Perhaps we should expand our horizons to measure the virtues of electric cars against those of

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neighborhoods, and the costs of generating more energy against the savings from using less.”

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