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...Millennials, climate change is emerging as the defining issue of their time, just as civil rights or Vietnam might have been for the generation before. "This is a new generation that sees itself at the forefront of a great movement, just like the greatest movements of the past," says Tolkan. With health care, Iraq and the economy all jostling for voters' attention, it remains to be seen whether climate change - still an amorphous threat to most Americans - can seize center stage, but Washington should know that there is a growing core of young activists out there who care about nothing...
American environmental policy often doesn't start in Washington - it starts in Sacramento. California has been at the forefront of anti-pollution legislation since the days of the Clean Air Act, which was passed in part because auto-induced smog was rendering southern California unlivable. The Clean Air Act actually allows California to set its own, stricter vehicle emissions standards - rather than deferring to Washington - and then allows other states to choose to follow Sacramento's lead. Following in that tradition, in 2005 California passed a law that would tighten greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, starting with 2009 models, eventually...
...allowed for oversea successes. But unlike with stem cell research, error in efficient oversight of synbio research in any one country could cause instant global repercussions—bacteria, of course, don’t observe borders. If anything, U.S. lawmakers should want domestic companies to be at the forefront of this field in order to leverage more control in the introduction of standardized international policies.It is a fallacy to say that synthetic biologists are against government cooperation. However, research cannot slow while policies are implemented. And if synbio is to soon unlock the promises that Venter and others have...
...Administration, research spending has been unduly neglected. The proposed $1.1 billion budget increase presents a much-needed shot in the arm for the government-subsidized research and development, which accounts for a sizeable portion of biomedical research funding in the United States. If America is to remain at the forefront of science and medicine, continued support is needed. The bill also contains the beneficial stipulation that NIH research be made free and available online, a move that irks book publishers but provides increased access for people and institutions discouraged by prohibitively high scientific journal costs...
...impossible to balance. Forget figuring out what we’re going to do with our own lives; now we have to save the planet as well. The thorny questions of morality raised in speeches like Gates’s are most readily accessible through the concern at the forefront of every senior’s mind: Where will I be working next year...