--- bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
"Break Through: The Death of Environmentalism and the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. didn't find a website on the first 10 hits."
Try the Apollo Alliance. Schellenberger was an author/founder of that concept, which was meant to echo the Kennedy space program. The main merit and selling point of the program, aside from the environmental issue, was job creation -- and, incidentally, steering existing defense industries and their Pentagon procurers toward more socially useful production.
BobW
> These guys sound like they should be on your show,
> Doug. anyone pay
> attention to them? Nordhaus was just on Morning
> Edition and spoke about the
> negativism and fear generated by current
> environmental politics and also
> argued that we aren't going to deprive ourselves to
> a solution. I don't
> know how much they go into it in the book, but the
> angle on a politics of
> possibility, rather than negative imagery, sounded
> intriguing. Their lit
> review section might be worth the trip to the
> library at any rate.
>
> Break Through: The Death of Environmentalism and the
> Politics of Possibility
> by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
>
> didn't find a website on the first 10 hits.
>
>
> oh and speaking of which, what about Ehrenreich's
> new book? I read the
> review in the NYRB. It's about the role played by
> dance and what the
> sociologists call "collective effervescence" in
> politics. Anyone up for a
> group read of that book or, as I proposed under
> another nome de plume, a
> read of Hofstadter's work?
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Streets-History-Collective-Joy/dp/0805057234/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195302754&sr=1-3
>
>
>
> "You know how it is, come for the animal porn,
> stay for the cultural analysis." -- Michael Berube
>
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