Key Pact in Global Warming Fight
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 18th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Key Pact in Global Warming Fight
John Podesta, Politico
The United Nations climate summit’s Cancun Agreements were a critical step toward an effective compact to fight global warming after many years of disappointing climate meetings. But why did Cancun work where Copenhagen failed? Three factors helped the notoriously difficult negotiating process.First, the Cancun Agreements had a good foundation in the Copenhagen Accord, which emerged from last year’s climate summit.
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Can the L-Word Be Saved?
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Politically speaking, America may be the most confused country in the world. Millions of people in this country are conservatives and even reactionaries who think they are liberals; we have millions more liberals and radicals who call themselves conservative.It is an unholy mess and it needs to be cleared up. It’s time for a language intervention.Despite the mess so many “liberals” have made of this great political tradition, liberal and progressive are two of the noblest and most important words in the dictionary. They describe…