NEW YORK TIMES
Letter To The Editor
Letters
Ways to Respond to Climate Change
Published: March 1, 2010
To the Editor:
Al Gore’s Op-Ed article was a thoughtful contribution to the frenzied discussion under way on climate change. He went right to the heart of the matter with his comment: “Though there have been impressive efforts by many business leaders, hundreds of millions of individuals and families throughout the world and many national, regional and local governments, our civilization is still failing miserably to slow the rate at which these emissions are increasing — much less reduce them.”
Future generations may well be less kind in their assessment of our failure to act.
Thomas F. Malone
West Hartford, Conn., Feb. 28, 2010
The writer is former president of the American Meteorological Society and former foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/opinion/l02climate.html
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
A Suggestion for a New York Times OP-ED
GLOBAL WARMING, HUMAN VALUES, AND A NEW VISION FOR SOCIETY
By Thomas F. Malone
More than seventy years as a scientist, educator, and business executive, and -- most important -- as a global citizen have lead me to be prudently optimistic about the outcome of the public dialogue now underway on global warming. Of particular interest, this dialogue contains fertile seeds for further discussion and substantive action on the broader challenges within which it is enmeshed.
Recent developments in the public discourse on global warming have propelled the issue to a prominent place on the world’s agenda. This topic is now the leading edge of the overarching challenge of the 21st Century -- to reconcile a continually expanding civilization with the finite capacity of planet Earth’s natural resources to support humanity . . .
Read complete article . . .
GLOBAL WARMING, HUMAN VALUES, AND A NEW VISION FOR SOCIETY
By Thomas F. Malone
More than seventy years as a scientist, educator, and business executive, and -- most important -- as a global citizen have lead me to be prudently optimistic about the outcome of the public dialogue now underway on global warming. Of particular interest, this dialogue contains fertile seeds for further discussion and substantive action on the broader challenges within which it is enmeshed.
Recent developments in the public discourse on global warming have propelled the issue to a prominent place on the world’s agenda. This topic is now the leading edge of the overarching challenge of the 21st Century -- to reconcile a continually expanding civilization with the finite capacity of planet Earth’s natural resources to support humanity . . .
Read complete article . . .