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Environmentalists and green-leaning readers applauded the urgency of our special report, which argued that the debate is over - global warming has tipped the climate of the planet into crisis. But others called our stories alarmist and questioned whether humanity can affect the forces of nature Your special report on global warming [April 3] was thoroughly terrifying, for which I thank you. For too long this issue has been casually dismissed as a problem to be dealt with in the future. Why fret about a seemingly distant catastrophe when there exists a plethora of world-destroying crises to be worried...
...might seem a touch premature, especially to the 500 million people who will celebrate the 37th Earth Day this weekend—a collective “not dead yet” wheeze. However, these numbers mask the growing irrelevance of the environmentalist movement. Having lost its credibility with alarmist rhetoric and obsolete ideological ballast, the movement must develop a moderate discourse while challenging its previous assumptions and outdated theories...
Environmentalists and green-leaning readers applauded the urgency of our special report, which argued that the debate is over--global warming has tipped the climate of the planet into crisis. But others called our stories alarmist and questioned whether humanity can affect the forces of nature...
...banks? A distraught Republican summed up the party's problem: the episode was "caviar for Democrats." And it was a role reversal that must have been most satisfying for them too, since it put Bush in the position of arguing nuances of international diplomacy that got lost in the alarmist din over security...
...Mary Lewis, who led the discussion, wrote in an e-mail message that the violence in some sections of the U.S. on any given day is more cause for concern than anything faced by students in France. Lewis called the state department’s warning “alarmist.” “On a day-to-day level, the United States is a much, much more violent society than is France or many other countries for that matter,” Lewis said. “We have much higher homicide and assault rates, for instance...