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...efficiency, even without being bound by a treaty. The White House is also hoping that new advances in technology--say, refrigerators that can run on the energy it takes to burn a light bulb--will help make the treaty seem more consumer friendly. Its success in the end will depend on expanding America's environmental constituency: Will the soccer moms give up their sport-utility vehicles for a future of fresh...
...encourage one way or the other," he says. "You can't generalize on anything that has to do with an individual. It would depend on the individual's resources, inclination and the issues involved...
...quickly the world's energy systems are transformed will depend in part on whether fossil-fuel prices remain low and the entrenched opposition of many oil and electric-power companies can be overcome. The pace of change will be heavily influenced by the climate agreement that emerges in Kyoto and the national policies that follow. In the 1980s, California provided tax incentives and access to the power grid for new energy sources, which enabled the state to dominate renewable-energy markets worldwide. Similar incentives and access have been offered by European countries in the 1990s. Sometimes such measures are needed...
Because of restrictions on postering and campaigning, candidates depend heavily on these student groups' e-mail lists in order to get out campaign platforms and position papers. AAA, for instance, has the largest e-mail list on campus, with its postings sent to more than 1,200 students...
...these reasons, it may be inevitable that our children will grow up in a significantly warmer world, one whose climate will change in unpredictable ways. Yet for all the factors working against any sort of agreement in Kyoto, the last hope of controlling that change may depend on what happens there this week. Even the feeblest of agreements is better than none, says M.I.T. atmospheric chemist Michael Molina, who shared a 1995 Nobel Prize for helping unravel the tangentially related problem of ozone depletion. "The larger issue is to make sure the process begins," he says. "We'd better...