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"""Break Through delivers on the authors' promise to articulate a new politics for a new century, one focused on aspirations, not complaints, human possibility, not limits...With its challenge to conventional environmentalist, conservative, and progressive thought, and its proposal for a politics of possibility, Break Through will influence the political debate for years to come."" -- ""Amazon.com, editorial review"" ""[Break Through] is unremittingly interesting, sharp, and wide-ranging, and it provides a great deal of thoughtful comment for anyone trying to figure out how to rally public support behind action on climate change, or indeed behind any progressive change."" -- ""New York Review of Books"" ""Could turn out to be the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring."" -- ""Wired"" ""Their big-picture ideas are important and intensely argued, making this a convincing, resonant and hopeful primer on 'postenvironmentalism.'"" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"""

Break Through delivers on the authors' promise to articulate a new politics for a new century, one focused on aspirations, not complaints, human possibility, not limits...With its challenge to conventional environmentalist, conservative, and progressive thought, and its proposal for a politics of possibility, Break Through will influence the political debate for years to come. -- Amazon.com, editorial review Their big-picture ideas are important and intensely argued, making this a convincing, resonant and hopeful primer on 'postenvironmentalism.' -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Could turn out to be the best thing to happen to environmentalism since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. -- Wired [Break Through] is unremittingly interesting, sharp, and wide-ranging, and it provides a great deal of thoughtful comment for anyone trying to figure out how to rally public support behind action on climate change, or indeed behind any progressive change. -- New York Review of Books

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Ted Nordhaus has spent his entire career working with environmental organizations. He is a managing director of American Environics, a social values research and political strategy firm. Nordhaus is the coauthor, with Michael Shellenberger, of a number of books, including Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility and Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists. Michael Shellenberger has spent his entire career working with environmental organizations. He is a managing director of American Environics, a social values research and political strategy firm. Shellenberger is the coauthor, with Ted Nordhaus, of a number of books, including Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility and Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists. Jeff Cummings, as an audiobook narrator, has won both an Earphones Award and the prestigious Audie Award in 2015 for Best Narration in Science and Technology. He is also a twenty-year veteran of the stage, having worked at many regional theaters across the country, from A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle and the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta to the Utah Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City and the International Mystery Writers' Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky. He also spent seven seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

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