"Why fight for a local or even national cause when a global change could erase any victory? Preserving a beach ecosystem becomes meaningless if the coast is obliterated by a rising sea. Putting polar bears on the endangered species list is risible if the Arctic ice cap melts away to nothing each summer.
"If you are a dyed-in-the-wool environmental activist, that funny feeling you have is the ground shifting beneath your feet."
Hal Clifford in the Los Angeles Times considers environmentalism in the wake of global warming.
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