Common Ground for our Common Atmosphere
So often in the debate on climate change and global warming, the focus leans so heavily on the debate aspect, the issue itself takes a back seat. No matter the degree to which one believes in the human impact on the environment, we should be able to find some common ground in the idea that we have some impact and should take care with how we do it, even if many are not willing to completely change their individual lifestyles and economic choices.
Recently featured on the New York Times’ Dot Earth blog, this video, illustrated and animated on a whiteboard by artist between the scientists Peter C. Frumhoff and Kerry Emanuel on the subject of finding common political ground in the landscape of sustainability in society. In fact, the discussion itself took inspiration from an earlier post by the author on the same blog. It all came around full circle recently when the two scientists, one a Democrat and the other a Republican, joined forces for the Union of Concerned Scientists with their simple proposal for the video. Their concept is simply that environmental measures have the greatest chance of succeeding when they make good sense both economically and environmentally. But the rest is best summed up in the video itself. Watch below:
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