
Ted Nordhaus, left, and Michael Shellenberger are the authors of
Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility and a recent collection of energy and climate writings,
The Emerging Climate Consensus, with a preface by Ross Gelbspan, available for download at www.TheBreakthrough.org.
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Putting a price and a binding cap on carbon is not the panacea that many thought it to be. The real road to cutting U.S. emissions, two iconoclastic environmentalists argue, is for the government to help fund the development of cleaner alternatives that are better and cheaper than natural gas.
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Environmentalists have long sought to use the threat of catastrophic global warming to persuade the public to embrace a low-carbon economy. But recent events, including the tainting of some climate research, have shown the risks of trying to link energy policy to climate science.
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Two prominent — and iconoclastic — environmentalists argue that current efforts to tax or cap carbon emissions are doomed to failure and that the answer lies not in making dirty energy expensive but in making clean energy cheap.
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