[political-research] Bloglines - Is It Warm in Here? We Could Be Ignoring the Biggest Story in Our History

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Bloglines user SeanMcBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has sent this item to you. FAIR Media Views Is It Warm in Here? We Could Be Ignoring the Biggest Story in Our History By David Ignatius (Washington Post) Scientists believe that new habitats for butterflies are early effects of global climate change—but that isn't news, by most people's measure. Neither is declining rainfall in the Amazon, or thinner ice in the Arctic. We can't see these changes in our personal lives, and in that sense, they are abstractions. So they don't grab us the way a plane crash would—even though they may be harbingers of a catastrophe that could, quite literally, alter the fundamentals of life on the planet. And because they're not "news," the environmental changes don't prompt action, at least not in the United States. Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "political-research" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.