We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters. — Ted Nordhaus Agendas 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… — Ted Nordhaus Bios Copy Share Image
Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming. — Ted Nordhaus Climate 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… — Ted Nordhaus Climate 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… — Ted Nordhaus Clean Copy Share Image
Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Ted Nordhaus Achieve Copy Share Image
We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate. — Ted Nordhaus Failing Copy Share Image
It is worth noting that virtually every alternative energy source we have - solar, wind, nuclear, and battery and fuel cell technologies… — Ted Nordhaus Alternative energy 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… — Ted Nordhaus Addresses 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… — Ted Nordhaus Argument 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… — Ted Nordhaus 80s 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… — Ted Nordhaus Agendas 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… — Ted Nordhaus Agendas Copy Share Image
The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the… — Ted Nordhaus 21st century 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… — Ted Nordhaus Believe Copy Share Image
