Three Quotes from Break Through

"The ecological crises we face are more global, complex, and tied to the basic functioning of the economy than were the problems environmentalism was created to address forty years ago." (8)

"We argue for an explicitly pro-growth agenda that defines the kind of prosperity we believe is necessary to improve the quality of human life and to overcome ecological crises." (15)

"Rather than limiting the aspirations of Americans, we believe that we should harness them in order to, in Tocqueville's words, 'make new discoveries to increase the general prosperity, which, when made, they pass eagerly to the mass of people.'"

The first quote is relevant because it talks about the change in ecological problems, which relates to what Merchant says about ecological revolutions. They both talk about how changes in the environment affect the types of problems we have, although Merchant focuses more on blaming society than Nordhaus and Shellenberger do.

The second quote is relevant because they focus on positivity rather than negativity in the way that the world can fight problems like global warming.

The third quote is relevant because it relates to what Nye says, about not reducing the quality of life but of asking reasonable amounts from your environment.