• Break Through

    Thinking Positively….

    Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger have excerpts from their new book Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility on Salon.com. They first rip the way that prominent environmentalists have framed the issues over the past fifty years:

    “Eco-tragedies are premised on the notion that humankind’s survival depends on understanding that ecological crises are a consequence of human intrusions on Nature, and that humans must let go of their consumer, religious, and ideological fantasies and recognize where their true self-interest lies.

    Grounded in a tradition of eco-tragedy begun by Carson and motivated by the lack of progress on the ecological crisis, environmental writers have produced a flood of high-profile books that take the tragic narrative of humankind’s fall from Nature to new heights: Sir Martin Rees’s 2003 Our Final Hour, Richard Posner’s 2004 Catastrophe, Paul and Anne Ehrlich’s 2004 One with Nineveh, James Kunstler’s 2005 The Long Emergency, James Lovelock’s 2006 The Revenge of Gaia, and Al Gore’s 2006 An Inconvenient Truth, to name just a few.

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