climate policy blogosphere Revkin

Revkin on the Fog of Climate Policy and Going Beyond Like Minded Conversations

nisbetmc | May 27, 2009

Over at the NY Times' Dot Earth blog, Andrew Revkin has launched a conversation with his readers on the challenge of navigating the many emerging arguments and claims about climate policy, with Revkin emphasizing the need to engage with a range of ideas and perspectives about what should be done. As I wrote about a few weeks back, if as a society we only engage with narrowly like-minded opinions and perspectives, we will lose the ability to build consensus and achieve effective policy actions. Unfortunately, as Revkin alludes to, the dominant style among several prominent progressive…

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