Fresh Ideas: Americans burying heads in sand on climate issue
Fresh Ideas: Americans burying heads in sand on climate issueBy Anne Macquarie For the Nevada Appeal Last month India and China signed a major agreement on combating climate change, and the government of the Maldives held an underwater cabinet meeting to sign a document calling on all countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (The Maldives are diverting a significant portion of tourist revenues to a savings account to be used to buy a new homeland when sea-level rise as a result of global warming, leaves the entire nation without any land to stand on.) Next month at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, nations will attempt to hammer out solid agreements to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In the Oct. 22 issue of USA Today, Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on all nations to start "turning the tide on climate change, just as the Unity movement turned the tide on apartheid." On Oct. 24, millions of people in more than 180 countries held events publicizing the goal of "350," that is, 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosph