Binyamin Appelbaum, lead writer on business and economics for the editorial board of The New York Times, in Blaming Milton Friedman, a NYT opinion piece published Sept. 18, 2020. (Yes, that was nearly four years ago, but it’s still current.)
We have to change the laws and policies. We must stop subsidizing. We have to put a tax on carbon, as we have already put a tax on methane.”
At this point we might as well meet inside an actual oil refinery.”
Joseph Moeono-Kolio, lead adviser to the campaign for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, quoted in The New York Times, Files Suggest Climate Summit’s Leader Is Using Event to Promote Fossil Fuels, Nov. 28.
Politically speaking, the big question [about NIMBYism against big clean-energy projects] is about intensity… Anyone who follows politics … knows that wide, broad, shallow majority support cannot stand up to narrower, smaller, but more intense opposition.”
Journalist-podcaster (at www.volts.wtf) David Roberts, What rural people really think about clean energy, Nov. 8. (Link is to transcript; this link goes to podcast.)
Nordhaus assures us in his DICE model that growth continues like a cruising Cadillac on the California coast with an occasional pothole. But the reality is rainstorms, mudslides, earthquakes, and other drivers on the road.
Christopher Ketcham, in When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy, The Intercept, Oct. 28.
Climate action is dwarfed by the scale of the challenge. We must make up time lost to foot-dragging, arm-twisting and the naked greed of entrenched interests raking in billions from fossil fuels.”
United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres, while convening the U.N. Climate Ambition Summit, reported in At a Summit on Climate Ambition, the U.S. and China End Up on the B List, New York Times, Sept 20.
Watching TV and seeing everything burn, it’s hard to stay interested in world problems when there won’t be a world. Every summer will be hotter. It will always be worse.”
Italian student Sara Maggiolo, 16, quoted in How Do We Feel About Global Warming? It’s Called Eco-Anxiety, by Jason Horowitz, New York Times Rome bureau chief, Sept. 16.
In many parts of the world, including some of the most densely forested, trees are not perfect allies for tree-huggers anymore, and forests no longer reliable climate partners. What was once the embodiment of environmental values now seems increasingly to be fighting for the other side. In some places, fighting harder each year.”
NY Times climate correspondent David Wallace-Wells, in Forests Are No Longer Our Climate Friends, Sept. 6.
Asked what the country should do to combat climate change, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Heritage Foundation’s energy and climate center, said ‘I really hadn’t thought about it in those terms.’”
A Republican 2024 Climate Strategy: More Drilling, Less Clean Energy, by Lisa Friedman, published in the NY Times, Aug. 4.
If anybody in New York is wondering why there’s smoke there, it’s because the fires here are unstoppable.”
Fabrice Mossé, commander of a team of 109 French firefighters battling climate-charged forest fires in northern Quebec, quoted by New York Times reporter Norimitsu Onishi in ‘The Fires Here Are Unstoppable,’ NYT, June 18.
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