Pandora's Promise (2013)

Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute : When we look at nuclear we have to understand that we're making a long term investment.

Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute : Now it's a big upfront capital cost, but these are plants that are going to last 60, 80, maybe even 100 years.
Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute : We're basically gonna double the amount of energy we consume by 2050, we're gonna triple it or quadruple it by the end of the century.

Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute : And meanwhile, if you want to stabilize emissions at some reasonable level, almost all of that energy has to be clean energy.

Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute : You've got to not only create a clean energy infrastructure to replace the fossil-fuel infrastructure we have, but we have to create another one or maybe two of them between now and 2050 or 2100 in order to reduce our emissions to stabilize the climate.

Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute : And that is just nothing that anybody has been talking about or dealing with in the last 20 years.
Himself - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute : Making solar panels is an incredibly toxic process.

Michael Shellenberger: Self - President & Co-Founder, The Breakthrough Institute