Jesse Ausubel – not your typical environmentalist (Image: Marc Asnin)
Jesse Ausubel believes technology has the potential to save the world and give everyone more prosperous lives. His vision would be anathema to most greens. So where, Fred Pearce asks, does his big thinking come from?
What makes you such an optimist?
Working in The Rockefeller University here in New York, I am overwhelmed every week by what people are learning. Genetics offers the most dramatic example, but in materials science and so many fields it’s almost as astonishing. Modern science is very young. Even if you go back to Galileo,…
