false 1771095 2 In the fall of 2004, two young environmentalists, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, triggered a firestorm of controversy with their essay, The Death of Environmentalism. In it they argued that the politics that dealt with acid rain and smog can't deal with global warming. Society has changed, and our politics have not kept up. Environmentalism must die, they concluded, so that something new can be born. Now, three years later, Break Through delivers on the authors' promise to articulate a new politics for a new century, one focused on aspirations, not complaints, human possibility, not limits.<br><br><br>If environmentalists and progressives are to seize the moment offered by the collapse of the Bush presidency, they must break from the politics of limits, and grapple with some inconvenient truths of their own. The old pollution and conservation paradigms have failed. The nations that ratified the Kyoto protocol have seen their greenhouse gas emissions go up, not down. And tropical rain forest deforestation has accelerated.<br><br>What the new ecological crises demand is not that we constrain human power but unleash it. Overcoming global warming demands not pollution control but rather a new kind of economic development. We cannot tear down the old energy economy before building the new one. The invention of the Internet and microchips, the creation of the space program, the birth of the European Union - those breakthroughs were only made possible by big and bold investments in the future.<br><br>The era of small thinking is over, the authors claim. We must go beyond small-bore environmentalism and interest-group liberalism to create a politics focused as much on uncommon greatness as the common good.<br><br>Break Through offers more than policy prescriptions and demands more than casual consideration. With its challenge to conventional environmentalist, conservative, and progressive thought, and its proposal for a politics of possibility, Break Through will influence the political debate for years to come. 1769248 4 10 2007 Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility total:93|5:14|4:51|3:21|2:7|1:0| 93 351 224 39 4 1 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 21:04:26 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 15:00:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 10:41:38 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 17:23:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Nov 18 20:37:39 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 18 20:39:29 -0800 2007
I think their message has merit and their plans for how to get off our asses on Global Warming are right on. Unfortunately they spend almost no time in the book outlining ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 20:16:30 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 21:04:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 20:22:07 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 13:07:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 18:09:26 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 14:05:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 20:39:09 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 15:43:20 -0800 2008
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Parts of this were interesting, but not even close to outweighed by the irritation I encountered at many of their sweeping statements. Esp...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 22:42:59 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 12:39:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 25 14:59:58 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 18:23:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 11:10:39 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 17:00:40 -0800 2008 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 24 10:47:45 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 10:50:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 11 14:21:01 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 10 09:37:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 19 00:07:08 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 21 09:02:05 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 09:45:29 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 24 14:12:13 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 12 12:43:56 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 13:14:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 16:03:46 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 19:10:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 15:25:42 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 15:33:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 28 16:28:06 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 16:32:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Wed May 14 08:12:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 08:16:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1771095