We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.

All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can make the kind of long-term, common investments that we need to overcome those barriers to innovation.

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more skeptical of both government and environmentalists, these strategies, and the institutions that were created to prosecute them, foundered.

In the months after George W. Bush's reelection, a lot of liberals and environmentalists were ready to take a hard look at their political agenda, the Democratic Party, and the interest groups they supported.

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.