Word: confrontational
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...change. The United States emits nearly 25 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases. Without American participation, worldwide efforts to reduce greenhouse gases amount to little. Thankfully, Gore’s prize is already forcing many in Washington—including 2008 presidential candidates—to confront the realities of climate change. It may seem unconventional to award a peace prize to an individual and an organization who work in environmental science. But in the long run, environmental change is a threat to peace, for if we damage our planet, wars could very well be waged...
...colleague in this effort a distinguished historian of President Faust’s expertise and temperament. Not only will she be able to ground our moment of openness in the longer story of human aspiration; as a specialist in the American Civil War, she will know how to anticipate, confront, and find consensus on issues that unnerve and divide...
...chivalry and bluster” of President Bush exemplifies a more realistic response to the situation.Despite what she has uncovered in her writing her book, Faludi said that she remains hopeful and optimistic.“The attack on 9/11 gave us a historic opportunity to confront the past and resolve our myth,” she said, “To see ourselves in a realistic light.”—Staff writer Andrew E. Lai can be reached at lai@fas.harvard.edu...
...science buildings in both Cambridge and Allston – to support it. Our obligation to the future makes additional demands. Universities are, uniquely, a place of philosophers as well as scientists. It is urgent that we pose the questions of ethics and meaning that will enable us to confront the human, the social and the moral significance of our changing relationship with the natural world...
...This prize, after all, is a recognition that Gore has done more than anyone else (excepting Mother Nature) to bring about a sea change in public opinion. An overwhelming majority of Americans - 90% of Democrats, 80% of independents, 60% of Republicans - now say they favor "immediate action" to confront the climate crisis. Gore helped make that happen, but he can't take too much satisfaction in it. As he told me last spring, "Time is running out, and we still haven't done anything...