David Brooks asks:
We’re about to enter our 19th consecutive year of Truman-envy. Ever since the Berlin Wall fell, people have looked at the way Harry Truman, George C. Marshall, Dean Acheson and others created forward-looking global institutions after World War II, and they’ve asked: Why can’t we rally that kind of international cooperation to confront [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Global warming’
August 1, 2008
You Have to Try
May 30, 2008
Theater of the Absurd
From the Post:
· Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is set to finally saturate all media: Officials with Milan’s La Scala announced they have commissioned composer Giorgio Battistelli to turn the global-warming book/lecture/movie into an opera for their 2011 season. We were hoping for interpretive dance, but whatever.
How? Why?
May 5, 2008
Using Waste Energy
This month’s Atlantic has a fantastic article by Lisa Margonelli about the huge gains in energy efficiency that the US economy could harness if industries recycled their waste energy, most of which is in the form of steam and heat. Apparently, 55% of the energy that the US uses is wasted, a truly shocking [...]
May 4, 2008
Can we Solve It?
Al Gore’s we can solve it ads are a great idea and seem promising in their ability to build consensus for global warming legislation. However, isn’t there something problematic about Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich appearing in an ad where they tell us that “if enough of us demand action from [...]
