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Parroting Shellenberger will never make you look like a serious participant in this discussion.

Haven't read his books, I must have gotten his ideas by osmosis. Now reading criticism of the books on his wiki page, I think his critics are not concerned with environment any further than it aids their real case if the quote below is a representative sample:

"criticizing [The Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming in a Post-Environmental World] for demanding increased technological innovation rather than addressing the systemic concerns of people of color."

You don't have to read his books these days since the Astro-Turf he's fuelling with those phrases is all over social media.

I won't even go into this baseless bashing of "environmentalists". It's cheap and disgusting. Some of them have dedicated their whole life to the cause while a shitty anthropologist bashes them while being paid by the same companies which pollute the planet.

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