Sally Strange on Nostr: "For an example of that kind of person, I would point to William Nordhaus, the Nobel ...

"For an example of that kind of person, I would point to William Nordhaus, the Nobel Prize-winning climate economist, who was a very early mover in the climate space. He was one of the first economists to recognize that climate change was real and that climate change was dangerous. But because he held a host of economic assumptions that were sort of grounded in the ideologies of the fossil fuel economy, he built a model that showed that we should keep using fossil fuels until the climate heats up by three degrees Celsius, because that would be economically optimal for the United States. Subsequent research disputed this. But here was a man who essentially handed talking points to Republican presidents justifying the U.S. pulling out of international climate targets because he told them, quite literally, that it was not in America’s economic interest to try to phase out fossil fuels and halt emissions as soon as possible."

--Genenvieve Guenther