The Breakthrough Institute: Environmentalism and Political Philosophy

Environmentalism and Political Philosophy

The Emerging Climate Technology Consensus
Frequently Asked Questions about a new climate policy framework focused centrally on energy innovation.

July 2010

The Emerging Climate Consensus: Global Warming Policy in a Post-Environmental World
A collection of Nordhaus and Shellenberger's post-Break Through writings, from September 2007 to Spring 2009. (PDF)

April 2010

The Green Bubble, Why Environmentalism Keeps Imploding
Originally published at The New Republic

May 2009

Beyond the Pollution Paradigm: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists
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May 2009

A New Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore just updated his prescription for fighting climate change. Now other environmentalists have to follow his lead. ... Nordhaus and Shellenberger in The New Republic.

November 2008

The Green Bubble Bursts
Amid the energy crisis, Democrats are losing the high ground on the environment to a GOP that is pushing oil drilling. Nordhaus and Shellenberger in the LA Times.

September 2008

Second Life: A Manifesto for a New Environmentalism
Nordhaus and Shellenberger in The New Republic. (PDF)

October 2007

Break Through Introduction
The introduction to the Nordhaus and Shellenberger's full length successor to the Death of Environmentalism. (PDF)

October 2007

Arctic battle should move to Hyannis Port
Nordhaus and Shellenberger in the San Francisco Chronicle.

December 2005

Death Warmed Over: Beyond Environmentalism
Nordhaus and Shellenberger in the American Prospect. (PDF)

October 2005

Preparing for Nature's Attack
Nordhaus and Shellenberger in the New York Times. (PDF)

April 2005

The Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming in a Post Environmental World
Nordhaus and Shellenberger famously declare environmentalism dead, igniting a firestorm of controversy. (PDF)

October 2004

Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. A new politics for a new century, one focused on aspirations, not complaints, possibility, not limits. Coming October 4, 2007