Sentences with word «ecomodernist»

Latour offered a rollicking critique of ecomodernists and their manifesto, kicking off a discussion among the other panelists and participants about what it means to be human and the division between nature and society.
But a new ecomodernist manifesto says our salvation lies in nuclear power rather than landscapes covered in wind farms; intensive agriculture supported by genetic engineering rather than organic farming...
Previously he was Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, where he played a pioneering role in funding work that has coalesced into the emerging ecomodernist movement.
And we supported the creation of three new ecomodernist organizations — Mothers for Nuclear, Generation Atomic, to organize pro-nuclear students, and Environmental Hope and Justice, a new, pro-nuclear environmental justice organization that will launch next year.
Finally, I'm happy to announce that in the early spring, EP will open a 5,000 square - foot, street - level space that will not only serve as our office but also a center for ecomodernist research and action.
Over the last few years, ecomodernist thinkers have articulated a vision of a «good Anthropocene,» one where humans use our extraordinary powers to shrink our negative impact on nature.
A concurrent session at Breakthrough Dialogue debated different economic schools of thought with respect to how ecomodernists think about growth, innovation, and the environment.
Ecomodernists agree — nations should be free to choose the energy source that best meets their needs.
In Kelly's view Democrats have a plan on climate change — that is just like the one from Ecomodernists — and Republicans don't.
Starting by ditching the clumsy ecomodernist neologism.
His core conclusion is that the answer is no, and that ecomodernists such as myself are indulging in magical thinking.
Three ecomodernist leaders, Mark Lynas, Ted Nordhaus, and Michael Shellenberger, in a blog post called «A Pope Against Progress,» identify Pope Francis as a representative of the traditional environmental movement they reject, writing that Laudato Si» «makes explicit the asceticism, romanticism and reactionary paternalism inherent in many aspects of traditional environmentalist thinking.
A more sympathetic assessment appeared in The Guardian, where another prominent ecomodernist, Roger Pielke, Jr., agreed with the Pope that there are spiritual and religious dimensions to our current environmental problems.
Michael Lind has written a useful critique of the linked ecomodernist notions of ecological decoupling and rewilding.
Over the last few years, ecomodernist thinkers have articulated a vision of a «good Anthropocene,» one where humans use our extraordinary powers to shrink humankind's negative impacts on nature.
From the «It can't happen here» «ecomodernist» contingent.
Instead of final proof of the damage done by techno - industrial hubris, the «ecomodernists» welcome the new epoch as a sign of man's ability to transform and control nature.
I agree with the Ecomodernists that prosperity and technological advancement can lead to lighter environmental impacts and social gains.
Without substantially changing the substance, I wonder if the ecomodernist manifesto could have won over people such as George Monbiot, simply by better explanation and a change of emphasis?
Although I greatly respect the concepts behind the ecomodernist manifesto, I feel it does a poor job of engaging many traditional environmentalists.
My guess is that whatever they are doing to grow food in cities is not using the kind of energy intensive vertical agriculture envisioned by the ecomodernists.
Describing themselves as «ecomodernists,» those gathered around The Breakthrough Institute are not anti-science; they are after all ecomodernists.
The ecomodernists have been trying to achieve a monopoly on optimism as a way of winning the debate about how to balance human interests with the needs of wild nature.
In the hands of the ecomodernists, optimism isn't used as a torch to light the way forward, but rather as a cudgel with which to beat intellectual opponents into submission — because, especially in the United States, to be less than optimistic is to be, in a way, un-American.
The rhetoric of the ecomodernist manifesto boils down to the simple proposition that we can as a species manage both economic development and ecological conservation.
A group calling themselves the «ecomodernists» were warned not to make their British debut alongside prominent UK climate denier Owen Paterson.
... to the extent that the ecomodernist manifesto does not take account of the real - world obstacles to that goal, it ducks the very question it claims to be addressing.
The new «ecomodernist» push implicitly restates the BTI position that getting to carbon zero follows from technological innovation alone.
In calculations for Slate, Michael Shellenberger, one of the founders of the «ecomodernist» philosophy that advocates for a technology - focused approach to tackling climate change that includes support for nuclear power, figured out that «under Sanders» proposal to not re-license nuclear plants, U.S. carbon emissions would increase by a minimum of 2 billion tons, about the same amount as the U.S. produces each year making electricity.»
While celebrating technology's achievements, he takes aim at those «ecomodernists» who believe that climate change is a technological challenge rather than a moral and political one.
In late June, around 170 scholars, policy makers, philanthropists, friends, and allies of Breakthrough Institute gathered in Sausalito to pose tough questions of the ecomodernist project and its stated goals.
But the ecomodernists at the Breakthrough Institute aren't convinced.
The ecomodernist appeal to a «good Anthropocene» (sometime in the distant future), in turn, breeds complacency — best summed up by the phrases «everything happens for the best.»
Ecomodernists, on the other hand, argue that humans are not the same as protozoan, and that they can overcome ecological problems.
In the ecomodernist view, this is a good thing even if brings out more carbon dioxide emissions.
We call ourselves ecopragmatists and ecomodernists.
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