Mark Gongloff, Columnist

Maybe We Should Try Tesla-fying the Economy

After 40 years of consumption, it’s time to invest in the future again, starting with green infrastructure.

August 5, 2021 at 9:20 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

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A lot of the hype surrounding Tesla derives from hopelessly online people cheering on one of their own, Elon Musk. But some of it might also have to do with the fact that Musk and Tesla are doing something relatively rare in today’s economy: building stuff.