Alan: The big question is whether focusing the development of new technology to clean/scrub fossil-fuel "exhaust" will distract from full-throttle transition to solar energy.
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"What is lost in the caricature of a technology-first approach that we hear from Chait is that the concept does not mean all research and development, no demonstration or deployment. The idea of an innovation-first approach is rather to scale up research, development, and demonstration efforts, focusing first on institutional and regulatory reforms that would enhance our capabilities and building from there. This is not an excuse to do next-to-nothing on climate; it is a real path — perhaps the only one — to deep emissions reductions over time. There is plenty of room for common ground here, if people of good faith could only work together to explore it. " Samuel Thernstrom in National Review.
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