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  Revkin's on it

  Andy Revkin's steady eye has stayed--for years-- on an issue that, albeit critical, falls on many deaf ears.  He lays out the issues so that any layman might understand how the debate is being conducted.  

  Climate change, what-to-do and, how-to-help considerations for most Americans are daunting.   Framing the conversation, allowing for the middle road, and "showing me how" are what kept 'An Inconvenient Truth' from becoming a cause for mass suicide.
  Those--like Al Gore and Laurie David-- who have pushed hard need to push harder.  The mass has begun to move but not fast enough.  Revkin's piece highlights that those who de-bunked the seriousness of the situation--or kept silent--  now understand we cannot underprepare.  

  No action is ever fully enough, but America, for the most part, is not listening.  Revkin's piece, focusing on the scientific agreement that we need to prepare,  coupled with todays Times article on CFLs and Walmart make it clearer.  The two articles keep the issue in front of the part of the world that intensely cares, the one that knows it's an issue but, seems to say, "so what",  and the one world that knows that economics will drive any solution if one is to be found.   The energy challenge both articles highlight-- that a real solution might be found somewhere in the middle with passion driving issues, science focusing the debate and economics funding solutions--seem to be moving us forward.On The supposed 'middle way' is debunked posted 2 years, 10 months ago 39 Responses