I Am Not One For Half Measures

All Of The Economic Signals In The Marketplace Are Essentially Subsidizing The Use Of Dirty Fossil Fuels And Penalizing Clean Energy. There's Really Only One Entity In Society That Can Solve That Problem, And That Is Government. And The Air Is A Scarce Resource.

What Is A Fish Without A River? What Is A Bird Without A Tree To Nest In? What Is An Endangered Species Act Without Any Enforcement Mechanism To Ensure Their Habitat Is Protected? It Is Nothing.

We Can't Tell China What To Do If We Don't Do It Ourselves. You Don't Inspire Someone To Take An Action By Refusing To Take It Yourself. We Are In A Race To Be The Dominant Clean-energy Provider To The World. Maybe This Goes Without Saying: We've Got To Get China Into An International Protocol And The Magic Words Are "common Responsibility With Differentiated Action."

We Could Never Light Another Match, And If China Continues To Build One Coal-fired Power Plant A Week, We Are Doomed. China Is Going To Have To Have New Technologies Made Available To It To Stop This. They're Not Going To Live In Poverty.

Not Wasting Energy. It Is The Least Sexy, But The Single Most Important And Always The Least Expensive. You Would Be Very Interested In A Report By The Mckinsey Consulting Firm That Concluded That 40 Percent Of Everything That We Have To Do To Mitigate Our Emissions Are Net Economic Winners. They Are Cost Effective And The Most Cost Effective Is Not Wasting Energy. That's Actually Going To Be The Largest Part Of This Whole Journey, I Believe - Using Less Energy With The Same Beneficial Results.