Why We Must Make Green Energy a Public Good
By Al Gore’s telling, the private sector is our best hope for averting climate change. In a widely viewed February TED Talk, the former vice president presented “the case for optimism on climate change”—a stark reversal from the doom-and-gloom projections about impending catastrophe for which he is known. Fossil fuels still account for 82 percent of U.S. energy consumption. But Gore is now sanguine, in large part, because the private sector is flocking to invest in renewable energy, what he calls... Читать дальше...