One Household at a Time. By Liza Mundy, WashPost, February 15, 2009. "The easiest step of all would be to sit back and let the Obama administration solve global warming, along with all the other crises that face the new president; to wait while the clean-coal and there's-no-such-thing-as-clean-coal forces hammer out a compromise; to listen as the experts decide whether the way to curb our national addiction to fossil fuels lies in biofuels or more hybrid cars or new rail lines, and then buy whatever new technologies the engineers come up with. It would be easy, in other words, to assume that one household is but a drop in our steadily warming ocean and that my own behavior is irrelevant in the face of thinning sea ice, rising temperatures and drowning polar bears... But many climate-change activists are far less dismissive of individual action, arguing that even small changes can have a real impact... Yet even the small stuff can be a surprisingly hard sell."
2009-02-17
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