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Changing the climate: why a new approach to global warming would make for a better politics--and planet.(THE ENVIRONMENT: DEATH AND REBIRTH)

American Prospect, The,  October, 2005  by McKibben, Bill

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IT'S HARD TO REMEMBER HOW POPULAR THE ENVIRONMENTAL idea was at the end of the 1980s. The movement had survived the crude efforts of the Reagan administration to kill it off. (Remember James Watt? Remember Treasury Secretary Don Regan advising that the best defense against a thinning ozone layer was a baseball cap and a pair of sunglasses?) A barge loaded with American garbage circled the world as one country after another refused to let it land.

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