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  Kinnison for Canada

  I thought I was the only one who remembered Sam-they -live-in-a-freaking-desert!-Kinnison. Too bad he slid under a gas truck and tasted his own blood, or he'd be my pick for the new Climate Alliance Spokesperson. Better yet, Canada would hire him to protect their ass-et(s) Some quote from years ago sticks in my head: Water will be the gold of the 21st century, and all the people who didn't see that coming live in Phoenix.On Where's tomorrow's water? posted 3 years, 6 months ago 15 Responses

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  Gore's Climate Alliance

  Many thanks for bringing the Yale report to Grist as well as news of Gore's climate alliance, since the issue that generated both--how do we get everyone to the table--is the pivot on which environmentalism teeters. Our perpetual re-enactment of junior high level social skills when it comes to raising issues inevitably generates camps. In the face of climate change there can be no camps. How can we laugh at schmaltzy disaster films (okay, sometimes vomit) yet remain incapable of assimilating the simple concept that, in the ultimate stakes game, drawing lines will get you killed. While it's thumbsucking comfortable to be amongst ourselves, we must be as willing to shake hands with the reasonable as well as the unreasonable. (tip of the hat to the gristmiller who trotted out the G.B. Shaw quotation.)On Gore-backed group will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real posted 3 years, 6 months ago 6 Responses