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Student Climate Movement Needs a Breakthrough

Posted by Michael Shellenberger on October 31, 2007 at 4:12 PM
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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.

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