Dear friends,

The Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism invites you to a reception for its upcoming event, “The Death (and Rebirth) of Environmentalism” on Monday, November 5. Please join us at 5:30pm in the Journalism School courtyard for refreshments from local food caterer Sheana Davis, and for casual conversation with journalism students, friends and the event’s speakers. Just before 6:30, we will walk (about two-minutes) to Sibley Auditorium for the talk, the details of which are below.

We’re looking forward to seeing you.

Best,

Michael Pollan
Knight Professor of Journalism

In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger sparked a firestorm of controversy with their essay “The Death of Environmentalism.” In it, they argued that the politics used to help reduce acid rain and smog would not work to diminish global warming. Environmentalism must die, they said, so that something new can be born.

Please join us on Monday, November 5, when Knight Professor of Journalism Michael Pollan will talk to the authors about their new book, Break Through — a conversation about how best to address the threat of global warming and the larger failure of American liberalism to reinvent itself.

When: Monday, November 5, at 6:30 pm

Where: Sibley Auditorium (inside the Bechtel Engineering Center on the north side of the UC Berkeley Campus)

Who: Michael Pollan, Knight professor of journalism, and Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, authors of Break Through

Admission is free.