2007: “It is not more information that people need. People need more options. Give Middle America a zero-carbon Ford F150 that costs less to operate than one powered by gas and they’ll fly off the showroom floor. Give China and India a way to generate massive amounts of electric power at lower costs than coal and they’ll buy up all you’ve got. Help developing countries develop sustainably (i.e., cure disease, get clean water, build markets, weather disasters — adaptation) and you will have strong international allies and new markets. None of these things are the result of better communication. They are the result of actually doing things — investing in technology, investing in development, investing in people,” said Roger A. Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado and author of “The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics (NY Times, 2007).
Reference: New York Times. 2007. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/are-words-worthless-in-the-climate-fight/index.html
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