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Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists by Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Abraham Maslow, affirmative action, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-communist, Berlin Wall, bread and circuses, carbon credits, carbon tax, clean water, conceptual framework, David Brooks, deindustrialization, Easter island, facts on the ground, falling living standards, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, full employment, Great Leap Forward, Herbert Marcuse, illegal immigration, Indoor air pollution, insecure affluence, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, knowledge economy, land reform, loss aversion, market fundamentalism, McMansion, means of production, meta-analysis, Michael Shellenberger, microcredit, new economy, oil shock, postindustrial economy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Florida, science of happiness, seminal paper, Silicon Valley, Stewart Brand, Ted Nordhaus, the strength of weak ties, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, trade liberalization, War on Poverty, We are as Gods, winner-take-all economy, World Values Survey, zero-sum game

See also new politics limits approach and, 15–17, 187 postmaterial needs and values, 187, 191–92, 249 prosperity and, 15–16, 269–71 Rorty and, 210 postmaterial values and needs. See also inner-directed needs; insecure affluence; outer-directed values baby boomers and, 254–56 conservative power and, 158–60 development in Brazil and, 50–52 evangelicals and, 189–91, 198–200, 207 historical progressive movements and, 193 insecure affluence and, 14–15, 39–40, 171–75 liberal politics and, 207–9 Maslow’s hierarchy and, 5–7, 27–28, 29 material values and needs and, 27–28 new politics and, 160–62 new social contract and, 175–80 politics of possibility and, 187, 191–92, 249 poverty.

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See also economic insecurity; environmental justice groups; health care reform in Brazil, 43–45, 48–50, 55 ecological concerns and, 37, 51–52, 75–76, 81–82 health care and, 78–80, 86–88 1960s policies and, 164–65 obesity and, 169–71 survival values and, 35–36 Terborgh’s views on, 303 (n69) pragmatism definitions of species and, 316 (n8) dictatorship debt and, 235–37 essentialism and, 219–22 global warming narratives and, 222–25 ideological constructs and, 230–35 interest-based advocacy and, 225–30 narratives and, 216–17 new politics and, 237–40 as philosophical tradition, 217–19 Prakash, Swati, 81 preparedness approach, 119, 223–25, 248 progressive social movements decline of, 159, 185–87, 193–96 period following 1993 and, 167–69 postmaterial values and, 164, 193 Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice, The (Foreman), 68–70 prosperity as cause of environmental problems, 35–37 compassionate action and, 200 decline of social capital and, 194–96 ecological concerns and, 6–7, 27–28, 269–71 environmental accomplishments and, 29–31 innovation and, 15–16 link between higher postmaterialist values and, 35–37, 164–65, 167, 177–80 new social contract and, 177–78 new vision of, 269–71 obesity and, 169–71 origins of insecure affluence and, 165–67 politics of possibility and, 15–16, 269–71 postwar optimism and, 161–62, 163–65 rise of insecure affluence and, 167–69 wealth in Brazil and, 44–45, 46 Protestant ethic, 247, 249 public education, 209 public health research, 82–83 public opinion. See also voter priorities attitudes toward immigration and, 168–69 Brazilian concerns and, 64–65 impact of Gore film and, 107–8 public/private distinction, and politics, 207–9 Purpose-Driven Life, The (Warren), 198–201, 214 Putnam, Robert, 195–96 Putting People First agenda (Clinton presidency), 260–61 R “reality-based community,” 241–43 regulatory efforts, as insufficient, 118–19, 258.

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See also baby boomers smog, 23–24 smoking, and health, 72–75 social capital, 195–98 social change, 111, 160, 193–94, 218–19 social context, and social values, 87–88, 162, 166–67 social insecurity. See economic insecurity; insecure affluence; status insecurity social psychology research, 150, 222, 307 (n30) social safety net, demise of, 172, 175, 177 social values. See also ecological concerns; postmaterial values and needs authoritarianism and, 35–36 change in social context and, 162, 166–67 Environics survey and, 33 insecure affluence and, 14–15 move to postmaterialist values and, 161–62 needs and, 6–7 new social contract and, 175–80 prosperity and, 244–45 quest for self-creation and, 209–11 role of history in shaping of, 33–35 status insecurity and, 168–69, 184–85 Sociovision (research firm), 315 (n43) Sorkin, Aaron, 258 species, definitions of, 316 (n8) State of Fear (Crichton), 139–40 status insecurity.

Elsewhere, U.S.A: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms,and Economic Anxiety by Dalton Conley

Alan Greenspan, assortative mating, call centre, clean water, commoditize, company town, dematerialisation, demographic transition, Edward Glaeser, extreme commuting, feminist movement, financial independence, Firefox, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane: The New Division of Labor, Home mortgage interest deduction, income inequality, informal economy, insecure affluence, It's morning again in America, Jane Jacobs, Joan Didion, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, knowledge economy, knowledge worker, labor-force participation, late capitalism, low interest rates, low skilled workers, manufacturing employment, mass immigration, McMansion, Michael Shellenberger, mortgage tax deduction, new economy, off grid, oil shock, PageRank, Paradox of Choice, Ponzi scheme, positional goods, post-industrial society, post-materialism, principal–agent problem, recommendation engine, Richard Florida, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Skype, statistical model, Ted Nordhaus, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, The Great Moderation, the long tail, the strength of weak ties, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Thorstein Veblen, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, women in the workforce, Yom Kippur War

.: Princeton University Press, 1977). See also Ronald Inglehart, “The Silent Revolution in Post-Industrial Societies,” American Political Science Review 65 (1971): 991-1017. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger elaborate on Inglehart’s concept in their book Break Through to suggest that we now live in a condition of “insecure affluence.” See, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007). 2. Fred Hirsch, The Social Limits to Growth (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976). 3. Hirsch paraphrased in Robert L. Heilbroner, “The False Promise of Growth,” New York Review of Books 24 (1977):10-12. 4.

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification by Paul Roberts

"Friedman doctrine" OR "shareholder theory", 2013 Report for America's Infrastructure - American Society of Civil Engineers - 19 March 2013, 3D printing, Abraham Maslow, accounting loophole / creative accounting, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, American Society of Civil Engineers: Report Card, AOL-Time Warner, asset allocation, business cycle, business process, carbon tax, Carl Icahn, Cass Sunstein, centre right, choice architecture, classic study, collateralized debt obligation, collective bargaining, computerized trading, corporate governance, corporate raider, corporate social responsibility, creative destruction, crony capitalism, David Brooks, delayed gratification, disruptive innovation, double helix, Evgeny Morozov, factory automation, financial deregulation, financial engineering, financial innovation, fixed income, Ford Model T, full employment, game design, Glass-Steagall Act, greed is good, If something cannot go on forever, it will stop - Herbert Stein's Law, impulse control, income inequality, inflation targeting, insecure affluence, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, job automation, John Markoff, Joseph Schumpeter, junk bonds, knowledge worker, late fees, Long Term Capital Management, loss aversion, low interest rates, low skilled workers, mass immigration, Michael Shellenberger, new economy, Nicholas Carr, obamacare, Occupy movement, oil shale / tar sands, performance metric, postindustrial economy, profit maximization, Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, reshoring, Richard Thaler, rising living standards, Robert Shiller, Rodney Brooks, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, speech recognition, Steve Jobs, stock buybacks, technological determinism, technological solutionism, technoutopianism, Ted Nordhaus, the built environment, the long tail, The Predators' Ball, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thorstein Veblen, too big to fail, total factor productivity, Tyler Cowen, Tyler Cowen: Great Stagnation, value engineering, Walter Mischel, winner-take-all economy

As prosperity faltered, we now found ourselves in a paradoxical position. Most Americans were still much wealthier than their grandparents had been. But our ascent had stopped: we could no longer count on advancing economically as rapidly as those earlier generations had. Many of us had entered what Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger have called a state of “insecure affluence,” where our material needs were still largely met, but our desires for better status, or more self-esteem, or other postmaterial aspirations, were being thwarted, which left us angry, anxious, and ready to blame someone. And yet, while such anger and anxiety, twenty years earlier, might have motivated us to take political action, the current culture pushed us in another direction.