We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.
Ted NordhausThe levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.
Ted NordhausEnvironmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.
Ted NordhausThe great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.
Ted Nordhaus