Love Your Monsters_ Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene - Michael Shellenberger [0]
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COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INTRODUCTION
EVOLVE
LOVE YOUR MONSTERS
CONSERVATION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
THE PLANET OF NO RETURN
THE RISE AND FALL OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
LIBERALISM’S MODEST PROPOSALS
THE NEW INDIA VERSUS THE GLOBAL GREEN BRAHMINS
ABOUT THE BOOK
PRAISE for BREAK THROUGH
LOVE YOUR MONSTERS
Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene
Edited by Michael Shellenberger
and Ted Nordhaus
Copyright © by The Breakthrough Institute and the authors
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Shellenberger, Michael, date
Love your monsters: postenvironmentalism and the anthropocene
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-615-57220-8
1. Environment. 2. Anthropocene. 3. Climate changes. 4. Global environmental change. 4. Human beings — Effect of climate on. I. Title
Book design by Dita Borofsky
E-book made in the United States of America
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
(“Evolve,”) are executive editors of the Breakthrough Journal and founders of the Breakthrough Institute.
Bruno Latour
(“Love Your Monsters”) is professor and vice president for research at Sciences Po Paris, and author of We Have Never Been Modern (Harvard 1993) and The Politics of Nature (Harvard 2004). He is a Breakthrough Institute Senior Fellow.
Peter Kareiva
(“Conservation in the Anthropocene”) is a Breakthrough Institute Senior Fellow and chief scientist and vice president of The Nature Conservancy and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He, along with Michelle Marvier, is the author of Conservation Science (Roberts & Co 2011).
Robert Lalasz
(“Conservation in the Anthropocene”) is director of science communications for The Nature Conservancy. He is founding editor of the Conservancy’s blog, “Cool Green Science” (blog.nature.org).
Michelle Marvier
(“Conservation in the Anthropocene”) is professor and department chair of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University. She recently coauthored Conservation Science with Peter Kareiva.
Erle Ellis
(“Planet of No Return”) is associate professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Mark Sagoff
(“The Rise and Fall of Ecological Economics”) is director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University and author of The Economy of the Earth (Cambridge 2007, 2nd ed).
Daniel Sarewitz
(“Liberalism’s Modest Proposals”) is professor of Science and Society and codirector of the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University. His latest book is The Techno-Human Condition (MIT 2011; coauthored with Braden Allenby). He is a Breakthrough Institute Senior Fellow.
Siddhartha Shome
(“The New India Versus the Global Green Brahmins”) is an engineer at Parametric Technology Corporation and a Breakthrough Institute Senior Fellow.
INTRODUCTION
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
The last few years have been demoralizing for anyone who cares about the environment. Emissions continue to rise. Ancient forests continue to disappear. And the world appears unwilling or unable to do anything about it.
The ecological thinkers assembled in Love Your Monsters argue that environmentalism, in its failure to evolve, has become an obstacle to addressing these challenges. A political movement founded on shrinking the human footprint is doomed to fail in a world of seven going on ten billion souls seeking to live energy-rich modern lives.
But if this collection of essays delivers tough love to greens, it also offers hope. By 2100, nearly all of us will be prosperous enough to live healthy, free, and creative lives. Despite the claims of Malthusian pessimists, that world is both economically and ecologically possible. But to realize it, and to save what remains of the Earth’s ecological heritage, we must once and for all embrace human