Last month in London at the Legatum Institute, I debated Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation on the subject of subsidies for energy innovation. A video of that debate appears above. My report from the debate can be found
here. Enjoy!
1 comments:
Didn't hear Benny Peiser before. Didn't like him. At all. He thinks that shale gas will save our souls. It's incredible. Yeah, I'm no peak oil doomster, but to think that our "salvation" will be achieved by this single bullet is disingenuous, at best.
He had good points concerning the private-public differences. You tried to dogde the ideological battle by saying "it's a done deal already", but that's not exactly an answer. Your solution is also ideological, it depends upon believing in a state-led technological roadmap. And while I think that states are "good" when the countries they lead are very backward, and they already know what to do (example, china), but they can be probably very bad when it comes to defining unknown futures. Specially when it goes down to something as obscure as energy.
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