Ted Nordhaus Quotes

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

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

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

After 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.

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

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

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