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?
For instance, in Nisbet's typology, «ecological activists»
such as Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein frame climate change as a product of the global capitalist system, «smart growth reformers»
such as Al Gore and Nicholas Stern diagnose climate change as a market failure that can be corrected with more efficient price signals, and «
ecomodernists»
such as Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger believe climate change has been misdiagnosed as an environmental problem and should be reframed as a resilience and innovation challenge.