Climate Change

[Although voters are focused on coronavirus and the economy] Climate change can't be forgotten this election. The Covid crisis has shown us countries can do remarkable things in short order when they believe they have to. It shows us we need leaders who also understand what we need to do on climate change, because that is another meteorite heading our way.

[On the Biden climate plan, and the politics and economics of clean energy stimulus proposals] It's a much easier argument to make. You can say these technologies are cheap now in a way that you didn't used to be able to.

China has launched a potentially massive transformation of its green enterprise, one intended to improve the economic efficiency of a Green China Inc. that has, in fundamental ways, grown soft. That is an opportunity for Western capitalists as much as for Chinese ones — to say nothing of the planet.