Question 3

I really liked Michael Maniate's article. After our small group discussion last class about the how climate change can really be addressed and curtailed, i round Maniate's article to back up what i was thinking. The most obvious point to me is addressed in Manaiate's use of other historical events that required large, powerful movements, not small steps. The best comparison, in my mind was when he notes that "Paul Revere didn't race through the streets of Middlesex County hawking a book on "The Lazy Revolutionary." While the environmental crisis isnt exactly the revolutionary war, the comparison is justified. Action needs to be taken, and not on a small, individualistic base. I agree this is a larger issue that the nation needs to be pulled together and told that we cannot turn around climate change by changing our light bulbs. Our government needs to not be afraid of telling us that this is a global, large issue. I think that the government needs to step in and make bigger statements and implement more drastic changes in order to truly address the issue of global environmental damage.