Word: polarizing
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Environmentalists are often accused - not always unfairly - of overplaying the fear card. With apocalyptic references to melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels and widespread species extinction, the driving message of environmentalism is that the future is doomed, unless we act now to save...
...general spirit of excitement,” Treuer said. “A couple of years before, she was just a minor political figure you’d recognize while shopping at Costco.” Earlier this year, the Alaska Klub—whose main events are the Polar Bear Swim and Human Iditarod—deemed this year the “Year of Alaska” in honor of Palin. The group’s Facebook profile advertises an open forum—time and location to be announced—on Sarah Palin...
Elaborating on some of these misconceptions, Treuer added, “I’ve been asked if I live in an igloo, if it’s dark all the time, and even whether I have a pet polar bear...
...Alliance for Climate Protection (ACP), the $300 million We Campaign (short for "We Can Solve It") opens a new front in the battle against global warming. Rather than trying to scare viewers with dire predictions of climatic apocalypse or wear them down with climate science - there's nary a polar bear nor a PowerPoint slide to be seen - the We Campaign seeks to mobilize widespread public support for action. If Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was meant to diagnose climate change for a country that at the time was still widely skeptical, the We Campaign is meant to find...
...Such polar-opposite viewpoints about the country's prospects have been typical for Russia ever since its economy began to rebound - along with oil prices - after the currency crisis of 1998. While some have viewed Russia as a fabulous investment opportunity, many have been put off by the taint of corruption and political risk. To assuage such fears, then President Vladimir Putin sat down with about 30 CEOs of Western companies on the fringes of a World Economic Forum meeting in St. Petersburg in June 2007 and gave a concise rationale for why they shouldn't worry. The Kremlin...