Ted Nordhaus

Ted Nordhaus (born 1965) is an American author and the director of research at The Breakthrough Institute. He has co-edited and written a number of books, including ''Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility'' (2007) and ''An Ecomodernist Manifesto'' (2015) with collaborator Michael Shellenberger.

The two were described by ''Slate'' as "ecomodernists," while the authors have described themselves as the "bad boys" of environmentalism. Like Shellenberger, Nordhaus generally advocates for increased use of natural resources through an embrace of modernization, technological development, and increasing U.S. economic growth, usually through a combination of nuclear power and urbanization. Many of Nordhaus' positions have been criticized by environmental scientists and academics, while reception from writers and journalists in the popular press have been mixed. Provided by Wikipedia