Global Warming: White Man’s Problem
If I were an environmental activist, I would be despairing right around now about ever getting meaningful action on global warming. Over the last eight years, eco-warriors had managed to convince themselves that the main obstacle to their grand designs to recalibrate the Earth’s thermostat was a stupid and callow U.S. president unwilling to lead the rest of the world.
But with Barack Obama in office they no longer have that problem. In fact, they have a charismatic and savvy spokesman who combines a deep commitment to their cause with considerable powers of persuasion. Yet his call to action at last week’s G-8 summit in Italy yielded little more than polite applause, and that only when he issued a mea culpa. “I know that in the past, the United States has sometimes fallen short of meeting our responsibilities,” he said amid cheers. “So let me be clear: Those days are over.”
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