Breakthrough

This weekend 5,000 student climate activists will meet in Washington, D.C. Let's hope a substantial number of them see the challenge of energy and global warming as fundamentally intellectual and conceptual -- not just strategic and tactical. This isn't simply a matter of mobilizing a few more campus groups or passing another city-wide or state-wide resolution about the need for pollution limits. Global warming is a civilization-wide challenge, one that demands our best thinking and largest selves. I did an interview with Powershift organizers that you can read here.