Break Through Smackdown

Anyone who appreciates a good intellectual brawl should head over to this week's TPM Cafe Book Club, where an eclectic crowd is alternately eviscerating and defending can't-believe-they-get-so-much-ink Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger and their new book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. Participants include William Chaloupka, Ross Gelbspan, Linda Hirshman, David Roberts, Joseph Romm, the Sierra Club's own Carl Pope, as well as a host of passionate commenters. Even with S&N remaining largely above the fray (so far, at least), the debate is warm enough to melt an ice sheet or two. Check it out.