Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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An Inconvenient Truth: More reaction
More reactions are trickling in to Gore's movie. Arianna Huffington loved it, and loved Gore in it. In fact, she thinks the U.S. political class could learn a few lessons from him:
... we get a seemingly endless lineup of fear-driven candidates who, with each new election cycle, become a little more wrinkle-free, a little more foible-free, a good bit less interesting -- and considerably more idea free. They are so programmed to avoid the pitfalls of actually standing for something, we might as well have robots running.
Whether Al Gore ends up running in 2008 or not, he is modeling the way our public figures, and especially our would-be presidents, should be operating -- from the heart and true to themselves. Standing for something more important than just winning, and more powerful than the fear of losing.At The New Republic, the normally snarky Franklin Foer was positively moved:
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Americans and Climate Change: Signs of action
"Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap Between Science and Action" (PDF) is a report synthesizing the insights of 110 leading thinkers on how to educate and motivate the American public on the subject of global warming. Background on the report here. I'll be posting a series of excerpts (citations have been removed; see original report). If you'd like to be involved in implementing the report's recommendations, or learn more, visit the Yale Project on Climate Change website.
Below the fold is the second half of the introduction to part one, which notes a few signs that change may be underway.
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Pat Michaels slanders Al Gore on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes
I just sent the following email to Fox News and Pat Michaels:
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Kick the Oil Habit
To see a much more convincing and frightening video, head over to Kick the Oil Habit, a new campaign just launched by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. (Robert Redford will announce the campaign tonight on Larry King Live.)
For my part, I think they rely a little to heavily on gas-price hysteria on the problem page and ethanol on the alternatives page, but then, I don't have millions of dollars to research and craft these things, so I should probably defer to their judgment.
Let's hope it goes somewhere.
(Maybe Ana can drop by later and share more details about how the campaign was conceived and what its goals are.)
