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overcome "insecure affluence", whereby voters are both more materially wealthy but also more financially insecure than ever before. Nordhaus and
Shellenberger say environmentalism should evolve from being a religion into being a church, and they see evangelical churches, with their capacity for providing belonging and fulfilment to their middle-class members, as models for a new "pre-political" institution for secular progressives. The authors argue for concrete policies such as "Global Warming Preparedness", and a global clean energy investment strategy modeled on the creation of the
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prominent among them). This was also the case with the white supporters of the civil rights movement, who tended to be more highly educated and more affluent than the general
American population. In short, the civil rights movement no more emerged because African Americans were suddenly denied their freedom than the environmental movement emerged because America suddenly started polluting.
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emerged as a consequence of rising prosperity. It was the middle-class, young, and educated black
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is a criticism of the green "politics of limits". The book begins with the birth of environmentalism. Nordhaus and
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Americans, so that they are financially secure enough to be able to care about ecological challenges, and a $ 500 billion public–private investment in clean energy. The last half of the book makes the case for a new social contract for the post-industrial age, one capable of helping Americans
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Such may be the case with environmentalism. In many situations the pollution paradigm may still be a good way of understanding and dealing with air and water pollution. Our contention is not that the pollution paradigm is no longer useful for dealing with acid rain or rivers aflame but that it is
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while actively trading on suspect political tropes," such as blaming China and other nations as large-scale polluters. They claimed that
Shellenberger and Nordhaus advocate technology-based approaches that miss entirely "the "structural environmental injustice" that natural disasters like
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On the other side will be those who believe that there is room enough for all of us to live secure and free lives. It will be pro-growth, progressive, and internationalist. It will drive global development by creating new markets. It will see in institutions like the
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not a corporate conspiracy to keep people poor and destroy the environment, but an opportunity to drive a kind of development that is both sustainable and equitable. It will embrace technology without being
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in perpetuity. This politics of limits will be anti-immigration, anti-globalization, and anti-growth. It will be zero-sum, fiscally conservative, and deficit-oriented. It will combine
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