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...early 2003, I had dinner with several of the consultants who advised Al Gore in the 2000 presidential campaign. I asked them why Gore, a passionate environmentalist, had spent so little time and energy talking about the environment during the campaign. Because we told him not to, the consultants said. Why? I asked. Because it wasn't going to help him win. "He wanted to talk about the environment," said Tad Devine, a partner in the firm of Shrum, Devine & Donilon, "and I said to him, 'Look, you can do that, but you're not going to win a single...
WANGARI MAATHAI The Kenyan M.P., an environmentalist, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. I propose Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state. The choice is an inspiration, especially for girls, who can believe that one day they can make it. Her election lifts a cloud. I'd also select Costa Rica's President, Oscar Arias Sánchez, who has pursued peace in his region, and Burmese opposition leader and jailed dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who is not breaking under pressure the rest of us will never have to face...
...image of Earth as organism--famously dubbed Gaia by environmentalist James Lovelock-- has probably been overworked, but that's not to say the planet can't behave like a living thing, and these days, it's a living thing fighting a fever. From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts, the global climate seems to be crashing around us. Scientists have been calling this shot for decades. This is precisely what they have been warning would happen if we continued pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping the heat that flows in from...
...town and a place for an entertainer, there's no comparison. There's no other place you can go to where you can just sit and do six weeks at a time and have your band and your staff be so happy. On the other hand, as an environmentalist, I'm a little shaken...
...ENVIRONMENTALIST, WERE YOU HAPPY TO HEAR PRESIDENT BUSH, IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH, SAY WE OUGHT TO LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVES TO OIL? I guess [the oil companies] made enough money. If he means it, not a moment too soon...