Not Dead Yet! Feeling Pretty Good, Actually. . .

While the debate sparked by environmental bad boys Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger over public-investments-in-alternative-energy vs. cap-and-trade vs. Nietzsche continues to rattle the coffee cups at TPMCafe, it's refreshing to encounter an outsider's perspective on the subject of environmentalism's purported demise. Here's Ezra Klein in TAPPED, the blog over at The American Prospect:

Meanwhile, it's quite strange to hear criticisms of the environmental movement at this instant in time, given that I can't even recall a recent political movement that's been as successful at injecting their concerns and proposed solutions into the political debate as the environmentalists. Climate change has emerged onto the agenda from seemingly nowhere, and solutions like carbon taxes and cap-and-trade programs that would've seem laughably utopian mere years ago are now proudly advocated by presidential candidates. And this is the movement N&S have arrived to save. Sorry doctors, but the patient seems pretty healthy.