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Technology alone won't alleviate climate change
NYT's Andy Revkin and E. O. Wilson get suckered by Newt Gingrich's phony techno-optimism |
Joseph Romm |
16 Nov 2007 |
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| Newt Gingrich is an anti-environmentalist who spreads disinformation and has done more than any politician in the last two decades to thwart a sensible climate policy that includes a major clean technology component, as I have explained. Absent serious regulations, no technology-only strategy can possibly avoid catastrophic global warming (as we should have learned in the 1990s). Some well-meaning people, like The New York Times' first-rate climate reporter Andy ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, energy, Newt Gingrich, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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