Pro-Growth Environmentalism?
This article at the WSJ reviews a book that purports to be about progressive environmentalism. Doomsday is out. Nobody cares. People need material well-being before they are interested in environmentalism at all.
Not perfect, but alot better than what passes for environmentalism most of the time.
Messrs. Nordhaus and Shellenberger want “an explicitly pro-growth agenda,” on the theory that investment, innovation and imagination may ultimately do more to improve the environment than punitive regulation and finger-wagging rhetoric. To stabilize atmospheric carbon levels will take more--much more--than regulation; it will require “unleashing human power, creating a new economy.”
Not perfect, but alot better than what passes for environmentalism most of the time.
Tue, 01/06/2009 17:40
Ray, Witness is as good a book as I’ve ever read.