2007-07-31 02:01:12
Last weekend I finished reading this book and watched Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, all in the span of 24 hours. Thoughts of global warming, the threat of a permanently altered planet, and extreme poverty killing thousands every day were swimming in my mind. While I felt a sense of urgency, I also felt conflicted. Because it's hard to feel urgent about both. In fact, history shows it's hard for the US government to give urgent attention to more than one crisis at a time. So what to do in the face of such cultural monsters? 

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