Indiana representative Mike Pence called a proposal by the Democratic party to protect the environment by putting a limit on greenhouse gases " an economic declaration of war."
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We are much more ready to abandon or sell a technology in clean tech today if it fails to be highly differentiated because one has to anticipate a continuing negative clean tech funding environment that will limit the ability to raise equity financing for these companies in the future.
If the fluctuations from the environment increase beyond that limit, the system, unable to disperse enough entropy into its environment, begins to become internally more entropic, more chaotic.