
Break Through
From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility
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Critic reviews
A New Look at the Environment
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Interesting that this was written just before the authors took a deep dive into nuclear energy tech, which has somewhat altered their view on clean energy.
The "wealthy yet frightened of loosing status " ideas are things I have been noticing recently.
Prescient writings.
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I used to consider myself both liberal and environmentalist. But, over the years, the underlying pessimism of both systems has driven me away. This book shines a light upon many of these aspects of pessimism, and proposes a renewed system to focus the world’s creativity and optimism on making progress towards real prosperity (which includes positive ecological change).
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Trojan horse for the free market
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