 AP Photo Environmentalists Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus famously proclaimed The Death of Environmentalism in 2004. Now they're back with an ambitious new collection of essays titled Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene. Their goal is to dismantle the neo-Malthusian environmentalism of sacrifice and collapse and replace it with a new environmentalism that celebrates human creativity and technological abundance. Hooray! TAGGED: technology, environmentalism, book reviewsRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| Imagine that you are the chief executive for a chain of 10,000 convenience stores, 8,000 of them called QwikMart, 2,000 of them called FastMart. Strangely, the FastMarts are bringing in 10% more in sales on average than the... more ›› |
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