The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center located in Berkeley, California. Founded in 2007 by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus,[5] The institute is aligned with ecomodernist philosophy.[6][7] The Institute advocates for an embrace of modernization and technological development (including nuclear power and carbon capture) in order to address environmental challenges. Proposing urbanization, agricultural intensification, nuclear power, aquaculture, and desalination as processes with a potential to reduce human demands on the environment, allowing more room for non-human species.[8][9][10][11]
Since its inception, environmental scientists and academics have criticized Breakthrough's environmental positions.[12][13][14][15][16] Popular press reception of Breakthrough's environmental ideas and policy has been mixed.[17][18][19][20][21][22][15][23][24][25]
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^Walsh, Bryan (July 26, 2011). "Fighting Climate Change by Not Focusing on Climate Change". Time – via content.time.com.
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^Demos, TJ (2017). Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today. MIT Press. pp. 46–49. ISBN 9783956792106.
^Caradonna, Jeremy L.; Norgaard, Richard B.; Borowy, Iris (2015). "A Degrowth Response to an Ecomodernist Manifesto". Resilience.
^ ab"The Breakthrough Institute's Inconvenient History with Al Gore". ethics.harvard.edu. April 14, 2014.
^Mann, Michael E.; Tom Toles (2016). The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy. Columbia University Press.
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^"Is the "Ecomodernist Manifesto" the Future of Environmentalism?". The New Yorker. June 2, 2015. Retrieved June 29, 2022.
^Porter, Eduardo (April 14, 2015). / 'A Call to Look Past Sustainable Development." The New York Times.
^Holthaus, Eric (20 April 2015). "Manifesto Calls for an End to "People Are Bad" Environmentalism." Slate.
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^Roberts, David (June 14, 2013). "Some thoughts on "Pandora's Promise" and the nuclear debate". Grist. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
^Roberts, David (April 27, 2011). "Why I've avoided commenting on Nisbet's 'Climate Shift' report". Grist. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
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