Dead Again?

Progressive political consultants Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger made a big splash a few years back with their provocatively titled essay, "The Death of Environmentalism." Now, the two opinion researchers are back with a book called Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. You can find a condensed version of their arguments in the New Republic.

Reviews are, so far, mixed. In an article from an upcoming issue of the New York Review of Books, (reprinted here), author Bill McKibben calls Break Through both "unremittingly interesting" and "flaky," while, over at Grist, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope (admittedly, not an impartial reviewer) finds the book "important and intriguing" but takes issue with the authors' caricature of the green movement before offering his own, somewhat different "pathway to the future."