Did We Tell Them About the Dream? Breakthrough Dialogue 2024

Plenary #3 Did We Tell Them About the Dream?
“Imagine how history would have turned out had [Martin Luther] King given an ‘I have a nightmare’ speech instead.” This sentence was, without question, the most famous and widely repeated line from “The Death of Environmentalism.” It was also the most controversial, defining a debate that still reverberates through environmental politics today, between those who believe that catastrophic framings of the climate issue are both appropriate and necessary to motivate government action and those who believe those framings to be exaggerated, unhelpful, or both. In the twenty years after the essay, the case for the dream has increasingly won the day as a matter of policy-U.S. environmentalists have increasingly embraced public investment and abandoned regulatory efforts to limit emissions-while losing ground as a matter of public messaging as the climate movement has become increasingly apocalyptic.
Featuring
Omar Wasow, University of California, Berkeley
Celinda Lake, Lake Research Partners
David Shor, Blue Rose Research
Ruy Teixeira, American Enterprise Institute (moderator)
Filmed at Breakthrough Dialogue 2024, "The Death of Environmentalism," June 20, 2024 at Cavallo Point in Sausalito, CA

[@ericdanielski4802]

Nice plenary.

[@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd]

UN is authoritative?