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“Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.” quote by Ted Nordhaus — Download Open image

“Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

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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…

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

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We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the…

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Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

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Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy…

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After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline…

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

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