The Death of Environmentalism

In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger sparked a firestorm of controversy with their essay "The Death of Environmentalism." In it, they argued that the politics used to help reduce acid rain and smog would not work to diminish global warming. Environmentalism must die, they said, so that something new can be born.

Journalism professor Michael Pollan talks to the authors about their new book, Break Through -- a conversation about how best to address the threat of global warming and the larger failure of American liberalism to reinvent itself.
Sponsored by The Knight Program in Science & Environmental Journalism

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[sonscope]

I'm sorry but I Had to stop watching this as soon as I heard 'Hurricane Kathrina' and references to Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth'. 2 Things....

1. The devestation of Hurricane Kathrina had NOTHING to do with Climate Change. It was caused by the failure of the levies around New Orleans.

2. The movie 'Inconvenient Truth' has already been completely discredited by the UK supreme court finding it to have 9 serious errors and also finding it to be partisan.

[whoo689]

Environmentalism, good riddance! Sure, protecting the environment to protect the health of our people is good, but that's about it. Caring excessively about "endangered species" and wildlife in ANWR and all this other bullcrap is a little extreme. Environut-ism has become a silly fad. "Look at me and how environmental and green I am!" Sustainability has become the new anti-global warming buzzword. Hell, I never even heard of the word used in that context til I got in college!

[bmecher]

@sonscope This scam is what is killing environmentalism. I will be happy to have things return to the Naturalist standard that was a whole lot less focused on politics/ jingoism and more on reality.

[Aishcirpac]

"'Inconvenient Truth' has already been completely discredited by the UK supreme court finding it to have 9 serious errors" - Which are?

[fatpizzaman]

@Makethedifference777 greed is a form of idolatry. You're pretty right on - we Westerners are too preoccupied with money than the welfare of the planet. True environmentalists live off the land and live in caves and trees. :)

[jobedied]

Save the environment LOL you cannot make money protecting the environment . The notion of environmental protection flies right in the face of our population growing to around billion people next century. Sustainability is the pipe dream of politicians who want to sound environmental, will never happen. Housing starts growing houses not crops more money in importing food than growing local, clean water and air never happen emergent pollutants and endocrine disruptors will never be addressed.

[theunbubba]

I swear to God that you could be held accountable in Nuremberg for torture for making somebody watch this video.

[theunbubba]

@ 19:30 this dork trails off to almost complete inaudibility and loses his train of thought . Who is this idiot? TAKE A SPEAKING COURSE!!! Please don't inflict us with your absurdly poor presentations!

[theunbubba]

Why can this dork in the black jacket not get to the point and say what the fuck he means? Stop saying "sort of" and "kind of" and all this whiny crap.BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIII­IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN­NNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG­G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[theunbubba]

Why the hell can't you envirowhackos edit a fucking tape to make it short and to the point? Are you all infested with the "Boring As Hell Virus"? Is it a chronic need to be as annoying as you can fucking be?

[IamMeredithK]

soil conservation is important. if you don't have plant roots holding the dirt down, it'll blow or wash away. once the soil is gone, we can't grow food.

[xxPowerOnxx]

if the environment interests you i have a lot of videos on my channel you might want to watch