Innovation will save our warming planet – so where is the investment? | Will Hutton
by Will Hutton from on (#W20V)
Governments must commit themselves to greater R&D or their vows on climate change will just be hot air
The most obvious response to climate change should be to transform the way the world generates energy. Living standards have risen 40 times over the last 250 years in the west, driven neither by the small state beloved of conservatives nor the large state favoured by socialists.
Rather, the growth has resulted from a complicated interaction between capitalism and science and technology, of necessity publicly funded, creating wave after wave of transformations in the character of our economic base and the quality and quantity of what it produces.
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