As the World Warms
Delegates to the recent United Nations climate talks in Bali decided they needed two years to formulate a plan for making “deep cuts in global emissions.” The earth’s changing climate seems unlikely to wait. The Op-Ed page asked four writers to report on the weather in their part of the world. Here are their dispatches.
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Draguignan, France
The Olive Tree Doesn’t Lie.
By Mort Rosenblum, the author, most recently, of Escaping Plato’s Cave: How America’s Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival.
It is a little weird to be getting briefed on the state of the world’s climate by an olive tree.… Seguir leyendo »