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In response to George F. Will's "Let Cooler Heads Prevail": Heads in the sand are definitely cooler.
Perhaps some of the 62 percent of Americans who say global warming affects them personally live on hurricane coasts or in Alaska. Perhaps the rest of the 62 percent were not sleeping during the past year when the hurricane naming system was breached, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began the process of listing the starving polar bear as an endangered species and Greenland's glacial melt doubled projections.
Sure, the temperature of Earth has risen and fallen before. But there's a conscious, powerful and very hungry species now presiding over this delicious planet, and our every decision in the next few pivotal decades will affect all life. Science and its reporting serve as extensions of our senses, providing us with information we need to fulfill our new stewardship responsibilities.
Earth needs people wise enough to value more than economic growth.
-- Werner John
Shutesbury, Mass.
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