Michael Shellenberger @ Boulder Bookstore

Environmental insider MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER triggered a firestorm of controversy with his self-published essay "The Death of Environmentalism," arguing that environmentalism cannot deal with global warming and should die so that a new politics can be born. In his new book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (Houghton Mifflin, $25.00), he argues that global warming is far more complex than past pollution problems and American values have changed dramatically since the movement's greatest victories in the 1960s, but environmentalists keep fighting the same old battles.  This event is co-sponsored by Breakthrough.org.