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]]> By: Alex Smith http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/01/from-the-nightmare-to-the-dream-introduction-to-break-through-part-4-of-5/#comment-57557 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:05:37 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/01/from-the-nightmare-to-the-dream-introduction-to-break-through-part-4-of-5/#comment-57557 I can’t believe you are wasting so much space on this weak-willed book “Breakthrough”. The Breakthrough is that we should toss out all the environmentalists, forget about trying to regulate carbon emissions, and mush up issues like climate change – with fixing health care in the United States.

After stabbing American environmental groups in the back, by calling them “dead” to their funders, this dynamic duo of pollster Ted Nordhaus and a PR man Michael Shellenberger have become virtual pariah’s to the rest of the environmental movement (by their own account). They are heavily funded by a single U.S. philanthropy, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, who helped them write the original paper, according to various media reports.

Even from a literary standpoint, the book is vapid, wandering through all sorts of philosophy beyond the expertise of the writers, in my opinion. There is very little meat. While we are busy “re-framing” all our ideas, the world is going to Hell. You have to go through 200 pages of enviro bashing to get to their “break through” – and then find a very thin gruel.

I’m surprise you waste you time with it.

Listen to my two part radio review of the book, and the pretentions of the authors, at
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock/ES_071019_Show.mp3 (1 hour mp3 file)(included interviews with authors)
and part two
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock/ES_071026_Show.mp3 (1 hour mp3 file)(investigation into their past and funders)

Alex Smith
host
Radio Ecoshock

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