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Environmental reporter Mark Hertsgaard, who has covered the climate story for more than 15 years, rounds out the package, telling us a bit of hard truth about how we'll have to adapt to a warmer world before even the most aggressive steps can start to turn the thermostat down. "There's no doubt in my mind that we have an excellent chance of surviving climate change," Hertsgaard says, "though there will unquestionably be losses along...
...hate to be confused with a serious person with a huge message, but the truth is, I started getting a lot of calls from universities and blue-collar organizations like the U.A.W. and the Teamsters. The weird thing is, now most of the calls I get are from big corporations like Motorola...
...about white people. Does he really think immigration can be reduced to "white people finding a loophole in slavery laws"--or was that a joke? Rock has demonstrated many times that he is smart. He doesn't need to stay trapped in the punch lines of the 1970s. The truth would be funnier and more helpful to us all. Bryce Ingman, LOS ANGELES...
...American Story puts country ahead of party. It says we can realize our dreams and we can envision how each of us can have a better tomorrow. Above all, it tells the people the truth. No lying. No fudging the numbers. Just the truth about our current moment--which means facing up to the consequences of our paltry national savings, our growing income inequality, our dangerously unilateral foreign policy, our denial of looming environmental disaster and our failures in health care and education...
Once we face the truth, the good news is that there are answers to all our current problems. An Administration bold enough to tell the truth will find an audience ready for bold solutions. The answers to the problems of our democracy lie in more democracy, not less. If we had public financing of federal political campaigns and if congressional district lines were drawn by citizens' commissions instead of partisan state legislatures, we would have less polarized politics. And if we moved Election Day from Tuesday (I'll bet you can't tell me why it's on Tuesday...