0
ISBN
9780547348377
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
10-03-2009
Bindwijze
Ebook EPUB
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Auteur(s)
Michael Shellenberger ; Ted Nordhaus
Break Through
Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
Michael Shellenberger ; Ted Nordhaus
In winkelmandje
Leesfragment
€13,99
Two
of
Time
magazine’s
“Heroes
of
the
Environment”
reject
the
status
quo
of
liberal
politics
and
offer
a
bold
vision
for
addressing
climate
change.Michael
Shellenberger
and
Ted
Nordhaus
triggered
a
firestorm
of
controversy
with
their
self-published
essay
“The
Death
of
Environmentalism,”
which
argued
that
the
existing
model
of
environmentalism
cannot
adequately
address
global
warming
and
that
a
new
politics
needs
to
take
its
place.In
this
follow-up
to
their
essay,
the
authors
give
an
expansive
and
eloquent
manifesto
for
political
change.
American
values
have
changed
dramatically
since
the
environmental
movement’s
greatest
victories
in
the
1960s.
And
while
global
warming
presents
exponentially
greater
challenges
than
any
past
pollution
problem,
environmentalists
continue
to
employ
the
same
tired
and
ineffective
tactics.Making
the
case
for
abandoning
old
categories
(nature
versus
the
market;
left
versus
right),
the
authors
articulate
a
new
pragmatism
that
has
already
found
champions
in
prominent
figures
such
as
Hillary
Clinton
and
Barack
Obama.
Seeing
a
connection
between
the
failures
of
environmentalism
and
the
failures
of
the
entire
left-leaning
political
agenda,
the
authors
point
the
way
toward
an
aspirational
politics
that
will
resonate
with
modern
American
values
and
be
capable
of
tackling
our
most
pressing
challenges.“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.”
—The
New
York Times
<
1 of 234
>
pro-mbooks3 : libris
