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Recorded on 8 August 2011, at the Carnegie Institution Dept. of Global Ecology at Stanford University with Burton Richter, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and Director Emeritus of SLAC. Produced by Ken Caldeira for Near Zero.

Richter's Four Laws of Government Inertia:
1. The future is hard to predict because it hasn't happened yet.
2. No matter how good a solution is, someone will demand that we wait for a better one.
3. Short-term pain trumps any long-term advantage.
4. The biggest subsidies go to the least-efficient technologies.

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Burt Richter's statements represent his own views. He is not speaking on behalf of Near Zero.