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...destruction and disaster are anticipated, they can be used as a compulsion to act,” Beck said. “[Catastrophe] shakes [people] up out of their indifference, creating a public sphere of action based on community...
...question repeatedly raised was whether cosmopolitan moments—in particular climate change—will actually catalyze these possibilities for new action...
Peter Hall, a research fellow at the Kennedy School, said he thinks the “intense conflict about who is to address the cost of resolving climate change conflicts” might significantly delay international action...
Audience members reacted in a similar manner to panelists, touting the speech as a “big contribution” to the discussion surrounding climate change, but said they were unsure as to how effectively it will stir globally responsible action...
...There is something horribly efficient about you,” Camille (Olga Kurylenko) says to a certain British spy halfway through “Quantum of Solace,” the lean new action flick masquerading as a James Bond movie. Lead writer Paul Haggis has continued to take a chainsaw to the 007 formula, and here, as in “Casino Royale,” paring away the franchise’s unnecessary affectations—cars with rocket launchers, Moneypenny, martinis done a very certain way—has paid off. Screaming through its 106-minute runtime...