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...wholesale change in the way Americans (and eventually everyone else) use energy, work, consume, even live. There's only one person in the world with both the political power and the moral authority to lead such a drastic transformation: the President of the United States. Unfortunately, says David Orr, the head of environmental studies at Oberlin College and one of the foremost green thinkers in the U.S.: "There has been a leadership failure on this issue. It's been a leadership vacuum...
...Orr is looking to inspire candidates to fill that vacuum. He is one of the principal architects of the just released Presidential Climate Action Plan (PCAP), an ambitious to-do list on global warming for the next Administration. PCAP calls on the next President to make climate change his or her signature issue, to spend the first 100 days in office preparing America for a post-carbon world, committing the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions 90% by 2050. It's far grander than anything Congress or any Presidential candidate has proposed, but to Orr climate change is a threat...
...squeeze the sort of sweeping legislation needed on global warming through a divided Congress. But there's every reason for climate change to transcend those differences, if the right President - or candidate - knows how to frame the problem. If you care about America's security first, Orr argues, you want to stop sending billions in oil money to our enemies. If you care about the economy, you want to make sure the U.S. does all it can to create a clean energy sector that could create millions of new jobs. If you're religious, you know that...
...They're not from the area," said Maj. Jim Orr, who heads the American team that advises Col. Jabar and his staff, "so they don't have any personal bias against the people or the community...
...Curtis K. Chan, Yuyin Chen, Megan E. Galbreth, Gaurav Gulati, Lewis D. Hahn, Alexander N. Harris, Kristen K. Hendricks, Seth P. Herbst, Sara K. Heukerott, Ryder B. Kessler, Julius D. Krein, Jeremy Landau, Roger R. Lee, Tiankai Liu, Katy R. Mahraj, Andrew B. Malone, Jason C. Murray, Genevieve E. Orr, Jay S. Reidler, Timothy H. Schmidt, Carolyn A. Sheehan, and Jordan D. Teti —Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu...