An Environmental Break Through? The Challenge of Climate Change, the Death of Environmentalism...

February 13, 2008
Speakers: Ted Nordhaus, Chairman, The Breakthrough Institute
Michael Shellenberger, President, The Breakthrough Institute
Commentary:
Jonathan H. Adler, Professor & Director, Center for Business Law & Regulation, Case Western Reserve University
Ted Steinberg, Professor of History and Law, Case Western Reserve University

Presented by: the Center for Business Law and Regulation

Summary: Environmental Law Lecture
Full Lecture Title: An Environmental Break Through? The Challenge of Climate Change, the Death of Environmentalism, and the Politics of Possibility

Global climate change may present the greatest environmental challenge of all time. Despite claims of urgency, there has been little action. Does this represent a failure of environmental politics? Is the current regulatory approach to environmental protection capable of addressing the challenge presented by global warming? Current environmental laws do little to address the threat of climate change. Some analysts argue that new laws are not enough, however. Rather, a new paradigm of environmental protection is necessary that stresses innovation and opportunity, in place of the politics of limits that motivate many of the environmental laws on the books. This is part of the provocative thesis Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger advance in their book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. This event will feature remarks by Nordhaus and Shellenberger, followed by commentary by Professor Jonathan H. Adler and Professor Ted H. Steinberg on the implications of the speakers' thesis for environmental law and policy.

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