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...encouraging that TIME is taking on the global climate crisis, but I am concerned that Bryan Walsh's solutions strangely resemble the war in Iraq: top-down policies and reliance on technology with little or no sacrifice required of U.S. citizens. If America is to lead this battle, much less win it, individuals and families will need to make radical changes in their lives, including conserving energy and water, reducing consumption, eating differently and traveling less. It is possible these changes could be made voluntarily, but an intensive national effort, like the one made during World War II, is probably...
...money for such development came once again from donors, and since local workers and materials were used, even a little revenue could go a long way. What's more, the old top-down method of letting the government distribute the funds was done away with. Instead, conservation groups would ask the villagers what they wanted, deliver it themselves and make conservation a condition of that delivery. BCI's ultimate aim is the creation of a Bonobo Peace Forest, a series of linked preserves covering a great swath of central Congo...
...paradigmatic example of top-down opinion leadership is the Supreme Court’s 1954 “Brown v. Board of Education” decision calling for desegregation. The Supreme Court’s decision reflected and—likely more so—contributed to shifting public opinion on racial issues...
Over the years, the superintendent’s critics have called him “autocratic” and “uninspiring,” citing his top-down approach to leadership and inability to collaborate with principals and teachers...
...distributing them via grid technology, as the Internet distributes information - a prominent part of his next government's agenda. "Zapatero gets it," says Rifkin. "He believes in working from the ground up and distributing power equally, and he wants to move away from his country's traditions of top-down, patriarchal authority. He took on machismo - he's a leader for a new generation...