Nordhaus and Shellenberger summarize the calculations of an increasing number of climate scientists: “There is no credible path to reducing global carbon emissions without an enormous expansion o nuclear power. It is the only low carbon technology we have today with the demonstrated capability to generate large quantities of centrally generated electric power.”

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, p. 147