They've drawn the link themselves quite explicitly in the years since. Have Nordhaus and his colleagues's own words: 1. thebreakthrough.org/articles/abu... ("participated in a panel with ... Klein") 2. thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-2...
They've drawn the link themselves quite explicitly in the years since. Have Nordhaus and his colleagues's own words: 1. thebreakthrough.org/articles/abu... ("participated in a panel with ... Klein") 2. thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-2...
In the second specifically: Nordhaus positions himself as predicting the movement. He is also the loudest voice for ecomodernism. It is not unfair to critique the two together when powerful figures use their terms as smokescreens for power.
(To be absolutely clear; I think he gets a lot of the basic facts of these situations right! But I think his arguments and follow-up solutions can go badly off the rails, e.g. the fission promotion stuff)