A colleague of mine from the IISD’s sustainable development internship programme is now working with a corporate responsibility NGO called Corporate Knights. He’s recently done an interview with Amory Lovins, the energy-efficiency guru of Natural Capitalism
So the small, fast winners are financed by private capital, while the only buyers for nuclear plants worldwide are central planners. I don’t think people who claim to be proponents of liberalized markets and conservative politics should have any interest in what central planners choose in places like Communist China. Rather, they should pay attention to what free markets are choosing, which is quite the opposite.
While not a name traditionally associated with “conservative politics”, London’s mayor Ken Livingstone recently said pretty much the same thing in an opinion piece in the Telegraph. The nuclear-is-unaffordable concensus seems to be growing stronger.
