There is a long history of bad things happening, people waking up and then going right back to sleep. The thing that keeps people from going back to sleep is political leaders exercising what they are paid for, namely, leadership. We do need that sort of leadership at all levels, including the presidential level. The rate of climate change is running ahead at this point of our ability to solve the problem.
Climate change has always been tomorrow's problem, but sometime you've got to grapple with it. That time is now.
Michael Oppenheimer
Wilson School and GeoSciences Professor, Princeton University
Source:
The Daily Princetonian, Thursday November 8, 2012, Vol. CXXXVI No. 103, p. 3.
