The 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… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
Energy 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… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share
We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters. — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming. — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
It is worth noting that virtually every alternative energy source we have - solar, wind, nuclear, and battery and fuel cell technologies for storage… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
As social values shifted through the '80s and '90s, as modern conservatism rose to power, and as the electorate became a good deal more… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
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 Nordhaus Copy Share Image
Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
The 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 Copy Share Image
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… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
