Volume 56, Number 10 · June 11, 2009
Can Obama Change the Climate?
By Bill McKibben
The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
by Nicholas Stern
PublicAffairs, 246 pp., $26.95
2009 may well turn out to be the decisive year in the human relationship with our home planet. By December, when the world's leaders plan to gather in Copenhagen to sign a new global accord on global warming, we'll know whether or not our political systems are up to the unprecedented challenge that climate change represents. So far the signals are mixed at best—and as I'm writing those words, the news flashes up on my screen that a huge new chunk of the Antarctic ice sheet has collapsed into the sea.
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