Ted Nordhaus. Chairman Email | Download Hi-Resolution Picture Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger are leading global thinkers on energy, climate, security, human development, and politics.
Their 2007 book Break Through was called "prescient" by Time and "the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring" by Wired. (An excerpt in The New Republic can be read here.) Their 2004 essay, "The Death of Environmentalism," was featured on the front page of the Sunday New York Times, sparked a national debate, and inspired a generation of young environmentalists. Over the years, the two have been profiled in the New York Times, Wired, the San Francisco Chronicle, the National Review, The New Republic, and on NPR. Shellenberger and Nordhaus are leaders of a paradigm shift in climate and energy policy. Download a PDF of Ted's bio here (short) or here (full).
Books Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus (eds.), Wicked Polarization, Breakthrough Journal, 2013 Key Recent Writings Nuclear. Evolve. Sometime around 2014, Italy will complete construction of seventy-eight mobile floodgates aimed at protecting Venice's three inlets from the rising tides of the Adriatic Sea.
The massive doors -- twenty meters by thirty meters, and five meters thick -- will, most of the time, lie flat on the sandy seabed between the lagoon and the sea. But when a high tide is predicted, the doors will empty themselves of water and fill with compressed air, rising up on hinges to keep the Adriatic out of the city. Three locks will allow ships to move in and out of the lagoon while the gates are up. Nowhere else in the world have humans so constantly had to create and re-create their infrastructure in response to a changing natural environment than in Venice.
The Creative Destruction of Climate Economics. In the 70 years that have passed since Joseph Schumpeter coined the term "creative destruction," economists have struggled awkwardly with how to think about growth and innovation.
Born of the low-growth agricultural economies of 18th century Europe, the dismal science to this day remains focused on the question of how to most efficiently distribute scarce resources, not on how to create new ones -- this despite two centuries of rapid economic growth driven by disruptive technologies, from the steam engine to electricity to the Internet. There are some important, if qualified, exceptions. Sixty years ago, Nobelist Robert Solow and colleagues calculated that more than 80 percent of long-term growth derives from technological change. But neither Solow nor most other economists offered much explanation beyond that. Technological change was, in the words of one of Solow's contemporaries, "manna from heaven. " Climate economics until recently was similarly oriented. That's starting to change. A New Politics for a New Century. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. SlowTV is a free internet TV channel delivering interviews, debates, conversations and public lectures about Australia's key political, social and cultural issues.
It's a new format for the delivery of new ideas. SlowTV provides a forum for the nation's leading minds and conversationalists to explore the ideas that fascinate us and the challenges that face us. Our programs, accessible at any time at the click of a mouse, have the freedom to consider every angle and the time to cover issues in depth. Beyond Cap and Trade, A New Path to Clean Energy by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. 27 Feb 2012: Opinion by ted nordhaus and michael shellenberger A funny thing happened while environmentalists were trying and failing to cap carbon emissions in the U.S.
Congress. U.S. carbon emissions started going down. The decline began in 2005 and accelerated after the financial crisis. Www.grame.org/energiesrenouvelables_article_septembre2010.pdf. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger - Heroes of the Environment 2008. You don't write an essay with the title "The Death of Environmentalism" and expect to get off easy.
But when Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus published their contrarian tract in 2004, even they were taken aback by the vitriol flung at them by the mainstream environmental movement. Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, called the essay "shoddy," while author Bill McKibben dubbed them "the bad boys of environmentalism. " For Shellenberger and Nordhaus — two San Francisco Bay Area veterans of the green movement who now run an environmental think tank — the message was clear: You'll never eat locavore in this own again. They shouldn't have been surprised. "The Death of Environmentalism" (and a follow-up book entitled Break Through) argued that for all the media and fund-raising attention, the green movement had failed to make real progress on the most important environmental issue of our time: climate change.
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