Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute advance their argument for a "third pathway" in the energy/climate debate. The two dominant sides, they assert, have
constructed increasingly baroque fantasies of the other. To partisan greens, skeptics are fossil fuel-funded and brainwashed planet killers too stingy to spend a postage stamp a day to save the world from imminent apocalypse. To the partisan skeptic, greens seeking emissions caps are crypto-socialist watermelons whose policies would destroy the global economy and rapidly goosestep us into U.N. governance. Those who fit into neither frame are squeezed in one camp or the other by those who believe that if you are not with us, then you must be against us. The result? A Manichean debate with essentially no room for a third view.
The authors make a forceful pitch for nuclear power as the bridge technology that can unite disparate forces to the ...
