It Will Take a "Bottom-Up Revolution" to Fight Climate Change: Tony Blair

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It Will Take a "Bottom-Up Revolution" to Fight Climate Change: Tony Blair

It's Climate Week , and Tony Blair wants everyone to start agitating. Exuding that wide-smiling, affable aura of his, Britain's ex-PM took the podium at the also-tony Morgan Library for the event's opening ceremony. He was in high spirits. "I've been spending a lot of time about the middle east," Blair said. "So it's a great relief to be talking about climate change — something easy, resolvable." The crowd chuckled. He said it's about time that the United States got serious about leading that clean energy revolution. The message was a familiar one, loaded with the kind of let's-solve-climate-change boilerplate that should be familiar to everyone except Americans (whose Serious Media regards any climate talk as all activisty) by now: "Driving this clean revolution here and elsewhere is massively in our self interest," Blair said. Because of climate change, because it's a sm...

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