Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.
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 NordhausEnergy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are still dependant on energy sources that are 100 to 150 years old while virtually every other sector of the economy has transformed itself. This is why we believe that the faith that many environmentalists still hold that carbon regulations and taxes will drive sufficient private sector investment into energy markets to create the kind of innovation we need is unfounded.
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 Nordhaus