How Ted Nordhaus brought realpolitik to climate politics

Vox | Oct 20, 2022 at 11:55 AM
  • I first met Ted Nordhaus in a Manhattan coffee shop in 2008.
  • From his perch as the executive director of the Breakthrough Institute, the Oakland-based think tank he co-founded in 2007, he has overseen or written essay after essay diagnosing the failures of the environmental movement and charting a more effective way forward that would harness the politics of the possible.
  • This was a bill taken primarily from the Breakthrough playbook — not that of the activists.