Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Fermi who?
Last week, Jeff Young of Living on Earth spoke to one of the top dogs at the Nuclear Energy Institute, Alex Flint. Read the following exchange and see if it fills you with confidence: FLINT: No, the Fermi plant operates very safely. YOUNG: That’s Alex Flint, the Nuclear Institute’s senior vice president for government affairs. […]
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Breaking the mental habit of selective fiscal conservatism
“And if people ask how we’re going to pay for [renewable power and infrastructure investments], you tell them that if we can spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, we can spend some money to rebuild America.” — Sen. Barack Obama, to a crowd of 100,000 people in St. Louis on Saturday
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The Governator gets it
“We must not give in to those that say that environmental goals should take a back seat until our economy comes back. It’s backwards thinking and just plain wrong.” — Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, speaking to the Solar Power International conference
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New report offers five different pictures of life in 2030
Forum on the Future recently released a report, "derived from published studies and consultations with more than 60 climate-change specialists," that describes five possible scenarios for how climate change might affect our collective future. Here’s the happy one, as described by AFP: ENERGY EFFICIENCY: A swift, peaceful transition to a consumerist economy where heat-trapping carbon […]
