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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social

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...

sep 2, 2025, 1:39 am • 1 0

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social

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.

20 years ago this month, I published an essay called “The Death of Environmentalism” that anticipated the rise of the Abundance Movement. In the essay, I argued that modern environmentalism was incapable of solving climate change because climate change was, at bottom, not a pollution problem that could be solved by taxing or regulating carbon emissions. Instead, it was a technology and infrastructure problem that would require public investment in innovation.
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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social

(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)

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