TheDay.com - Day Of Reckoning: "The time is growing short for the nation to take a serious approach to the dual problems of global warming and a looming energy crisis.
Our nation has developed an economic and social system wholly dependent on the burning of the very fossil fuels that generate greenhouse gas emissions. Most of us live in suburbs and commute to work in carbon dioxide producing cars.
Fossil-fuel burning plants produce the electricity for the appliances and gadgets that make our suburban life so comfortable, as well as for the offices we work in, the big-box stores we shop in and the amusement parks we play in.
But this lifestyle is not a birthright. As a society, we must adjust. As is outlined in a cover story in today's Perspective section on Greenland, the changes from global warming appear to be accelerating at a faster pace than previously estimated. ..."
