Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility.
Environmental Law › Vol. 38 Nbr. 2, March 2008
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Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility.
"... have been greatly exaggerated." (1)
Mark Twain Every few years a sect few of us have heard of, having proclaimed that the world will end at midnight, files into a stadium in Florida or Los Angeles to greet the void. They draw the usual publicity, and their pronouncements are covered on the evening news. I have always wondered what happened the next day when the sun came up instead, showing them terribly, and fortunately for all of us, wrong. In what condition did they leave the stadium, where did they go and what did they do? Now, I think I know. They wrote a book about how right they were. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger have done much the same in their new book, Break Through: From The Death of Environmentalism To The Polities of Possibility. (2) You may remember that this pair of public relations specialists made national headlines in the Summer of 2004 with an essay entitled The Death of Environmentalism (3) which they dropped on, of all vulnerable places, the annual meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. (4) They were not only going to make headlines. They were going to kick over the money tables in ...See the full content of this document
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