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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Notable quotable
“This idea of clean, green energy is no longer a tie-dyed T-shirt kind of idea. This is mainstream economics.” — Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio
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Notable quotable
“Anybody has the right to run for president if they file sufficient papers. The job of the Democratic Party is to be so compelling that a few percentage of the vote going to another candidate is not going to make any difference.” — Barack Obama, on Ralph Nader’s entry into the presidential race
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Notable quotable
"After all, there’s not a dime’s worth of a difference between a candidate promising tax cuts, pushing more health risk onto individuals, a re-invigoration of George Bush’s campaign to dominate the world through military force, and an industry-friendly approach to environmental issues and his rival who’s promising substantial socialization of medical risk, a 80 percent […]
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Deep thought of the day
When tallying up the costs and benefits of climate change (and mitigating climate change), economists generally use GDP figures. If the entire continent of Africa was wiped out, that would shave about 2-4% off of global GDP. Would that count as a large cost or a small one?
