11/07/2008 10:20 AM

McKibben on Obama's Climate Challenge

SustainableBusiness.com News

Global warming activist Bill McKibben published an opinion piece on Yale Environment 360, saying that Barack Obama must be ready to take "bold--and politically unpopular--action to address Global warming:

And so our eight-year interlude from reality draws to a close, and the job of cleaning up begins. The trouble is, we're not just cleaning up after a failed presidency. We're cleaning up after a two-century binge.

Barack Obama won an historic victory yesterday, and with it the right to take office under the most difficult circumstances since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Maybe more difficult, because while both FDR and Obama had financial meltdowns to deal with, Obama also faces the meltdown meltdown--the rapid disintegration of the planet's climate system that threatens to challenge the very foundations of our civilization.

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Website: http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2082

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