Michael Shellenberger on the Energy Revolution
Orange Goes Green presents
Energy Revolution
a talk by Michael Shellenberger,
President, The Breakthrough Institute
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
135 Humanities Instructional Building
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Light refreshments will be served.
The Humanities Center, in collaboration with HumaniTech and the UCI Design Alliance, presents the new series Orange Goes Green. This series will provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussions of environmentalism and sustainability.
Michael Shellenberger will speak about his new book, Break Through:
From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility,
co-authored with Ted Nordhaus.
Break Through argues for a new, positive politics capable of addressing everything from global warming and deforestation to health care and social alienation. Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue that the old environmentalist politics of limits is outmoded. What new ecological crises like global warming demand is not that we constrain human power but unleash it.
We cannot tear down the old energy economy before building the new one. The invention of the Internet and microchips, the creation of the space program, the birth of the European Union – those breakthroughs were only made possible by big and bold investments in the future. To overcome global warming, and make a better world while we’re at it, we need a politics more focused on investment than regulation, aspiration than
complaint, and human possibility than ecological limits.
Presented by the , UCI Humanities Center, the UCI Design Alliance, and HumaniTech®.
Free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Maritess Santiago at 949.824.3638 or m.santiago@uci.edu.
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