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Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists Paperback - 2009

by Michael Shellenberger; Ted Nordhaus

Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger triggered a firestorm with the publication of Break Through, contending that the politics that dealt with acid rain and smog can’t deal with global warming.The nations that ratified the Kyoto protocol have seen their greenhouse gas emissions go up, not down. And the destruction of tropical rain forests, a key driver of global warming, has accelerated.What today’s ecological crises demand, say the authors, is not that we constrain human power but rather unleash it.We must go beyond interest group environmentalism and liberalism to create a politics focused as much on uncommon greatness as on the common good. “To win,Nordhaus and Shellenberger persuasively argue, environmentalists must stop congratulating themselves for their own willingness to confront inconvenient truths and must focus on building a politics of shared hope rather than relying on a politics of fear” (New York Times Book Review).
Break Through is the first step in a new progressive movement that will influence the political debate for years to come.


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Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger triggered a firestorm with the publication of Break Through, contending that the politics that dealt with acid rain and smog can’t deal with global warming.The nations that ratified the Kyoto protocol have seen their greenhouse gas emissions go up, not down. And the destruction of tropical rain forests, a key driver of global warming, has accelerated.What today’s ecological crises demand, say the authors, is not that we constrain human power but rather unleash it.We must go beyond interest group environmentalism and liberalism to create a politics focused as much on uncommon greatness as on the common good. “To win,Nordhaus and Shellenberger persuasively argue, environmentalists must stop congratulating themselves for their own willingness to confront inconvenient truths and must focus on building a politics of shared hope rather than relying on a politics of fear” (New York Times Book Review).
Break Through is the first step in a new progressive movement that will influence the political debate for years to come.

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  • Title Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
  • Author Michael Shellenberger; Ted Nordhaus
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-03-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780547085951 / 0547085958
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.48 x 0.8 in (20.37 x 13.92 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government, Environmental policy - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009294339
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.72
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