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Newt on prizes and incentives to encourage breakthroughs in environmental and energy development; individual innovation may pave the way to America’s energy future

Last November, Newt spoke along with Jeffrey Sachs at the New York Public Library to address some of the issues surrounding a global shift away from a carbon-based energy system. Having dealt with these concerns in his recent book A Contract with the Earth, Gingrich asserted that an important way to induce innovation is to offer incentives to individuals for reaching technological breakthroughs that enable the world to create and make use of energy sources with minimum impact on the environment. There is much potential in the harnessing of individuals’ knowledge and creativity, as Newt explains in the audio clips below:

Message from Newt

The Gingrich-Pelosi Climate Change Ad: My Response to Your Comments

I have read your thoughtful comments to my blog post from last week and hope this more thorough response answers some of your questions.

Entering the Arena:
Why Conservatives Must Engage in the Environment-Energy Policy Debate

Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican and a conservationist, once said “It’s not the critic who counts [but] the man who is actually in the arena;” the man who “knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions” and “shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

For over 30 years, when it comes to the environment, most conservatives have been critics; we’ve been missing from the arena, and we’re paying the price.

It’s long been clear that we’re paying the price politically. Anti-environment conservatism can’t win elections in the northeast or on the coasts.

And now it’s clear we’re paying the price in terms of one of the most consequential public policy challenges we face: Energy independence. A conservatism that refuses to intellectually engage on the environment can not win arguments over energy.

The reason? Because moderate Republicans, independents, and moderate Democrats have come to see conservative Republicans as unreachable and unreliable on the environment. As a consequence, they have come to view all their energy proposals with skepticism and even hostility.

Nuclear power is a major component of any environmental strategy and yet its advocates have not had the standing to be heard.

Clean coal is an essential American resource (and a huge Chinese and Indian resource) and will have to be developed and yet its advocates have no environmental standing.

What passes for a conservative strategy on the environment has been to yell “No!” at any new initiative or even serious debate. The time has come to end the strategy of standing on the sidelines yelling “No!”

What conservatives too often narrowly – and mistakenly – dismiss as “environmentalism” really encompasses four very real, parallel challenges:

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