Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.
Ted NordhausWe can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.
Ted NordhausAfter a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.
Ted NordhausMaking big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.
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 Nordhaus