frankbi
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08:28:30 am on June 28, 2009 | # |
Michael Tobis says,
[...] one of my perennial questions, which Andy Revkin again raised recently in a Dot Earth column:
If the science pointing to a rising risk of dangerous human interference with climate is settled, the thinking goes, then why aren’t people and the world’s nations galvanized?
People are casting about for the right words to describe our moral and existential quandary, words that will galvanize “action”. [...]
There is no proper word for doom when that word only appears on page thirteen.
