THE BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Oakland, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges in three areas: energy, conservation, and food

and farming.

BREAKTHROUGH DIALOGUE 2020: INTENDED… Breakthrough Dialogue 2020: Intended Consequences - postponed. Wednesday, June 24 through Friday, June 26, 2020. Info Speakers Agenda. The specter of unintended consequences is utilized promiscuously across the ideological spectrum. Conservatives and libertarians use it to caution against social engineering and economic

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL CASE FOR SYNTHETIC… The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Oakland, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges in three areas: energy, conservation, and food

and farming.

THE DEATH OF ENVIRONMENTALISM Jun 16, 2010. I n the fall of 2004, Breakthrough co-founders, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, triggered a firestorm of controversy with their essay, " The Death of Environmentalism. " In it they argued that the politics that dealt with acid rain and smog can't deal with global warming. Society has changed, and our politics have not kept

up.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT… For all of human history until the 19th century, the world population was less than 1 billion people. Today, it is more than 7 billion (see Figure 1 ). The 20th century saw an unprecedented growth in the world population. The rate of population growth peaked in 1970 at 2.06 percent per year, but has fallen from that peak to 1.18 percent today.

CHRISTOPHER CLACK

Christopher Clack. CEO, Vibrant Clean Energy, LLC. Dr. Clack is the CEO of Vibrant Clean Energy, LLC (VCE ® ). He is pursuing a path that leads the way for a more intelligent electric power system design, here in the US and abroad. VCE ® uses intellectual property that was invented by Dr. Clack for its modeling, studies, and licensing. HISTORY OF THE SHALE GAS REVOLUTION The shale gas revolution, which has been the primary source of increased natural gas production since 2000, is the result of technological breakthroughs more than three decades in the making. All of the key technologies -- massive hydraulic fracking, horizontal wells, and advanced earth imaging -- were developed by government

scientists and

ROSS KONINGSTEIN

Ross Koningstein. Director Emeritus, Google Inc. Ross is an advisor to Google Ventures and a generalist engineer at Google. Ross has worked

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