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Another near-death experience for environmentalism
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Another near-death experience for environmentalism Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger 368 pages, hardcover: $25.00. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
Where were you the day environmentalism died?
It was Oct. 6, 2004, when social researchers and environmental policy strategists Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger instigated the world's greenest catfight by distributing their essay The Death of E...
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