This summer we're watching Russia burn and hearing new evidence that ocean life is dying on a massive scale, says Bill McKibben in the L.A. Times. That's what global warming looks like. At the same time, Congress has failed — yet again — to take even minimal steps to deal with the problem. "I'm a mild-mannered guy, a Methodist Sunday school teacher. I'm not quick to anger. But the time has come to get mad, and then to get busy." With climate change now threatening the planet's future, it's time for a new mindset:
If we're going to get [anything] done, we're going to need a movement. For 20 years, environmentalists have operated on the notion that we'd get action if we simply had scientists explain to politicians and chief executives that our current ways are unsustainable. That turns out, quite conclusively, not to work.
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