seeking to use climate education and communication to move people out of the category of the concerned and into that of the alarmed

was Solow who managed to decouple land from other factors of production and theorize perpetual economic growth without biophysical limits.

it is quite likely that ruining the planet will also ruin the economy.

Noah Kaufman says that to call any cost projection a best estimate, without accounting for these omitted impacts, “is a bit like counting up all the stars you can see in the sky and claiming the result is a best estimate of total stars.”

Their belief in a future of continued economic growth enables another idea sometimes used to justify sustaining the fossil-fuel economy: the idea that economic growth is itself a climate-change solution, a form of environmental protection that will shield the prosperous from climate devastation.

phase down, unabated, over time—the time is a question,” were his exact words).

What this argument misses is the historical relationship between technological innovation and government policy.

“weather constraints in Washington” required him to return to the United States immediately.

nature. Our plastics are nature. Our skyscrapers are nature. Our airplanes are nature. Our oil wells are nature. Everything made by human beings emerges through the ecology of this planet and remains in its systems—