From the Newsweek teaser on the 2008 presidential race,
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The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, “I don’t consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, ‘You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.’ So when Brian Williams is asking me about what’s a personal thing that you’ve done [that’s green], and I say, you know, ‘Well, I planted a bunch of trees.’ And he says, ‘I’m talking about personal.’ What I’m thinking in my head is, ‘Well, the truth is, Brian, we can’t solve global warming because I f—ing changed light bulbs in my house. It’s because of something collective’.”
I have to disagree with our president-elect. He is now our leader. He has to lead us: sometimes by words, sometimes by example.
But he must be reading my blog. It is something collective we must do, and we must be led there. By myself, my few actions will affect nothing. No one at Dominion Power notices that my heat is set low, or that I take warm showers, not hot ones. There is no glacier melting more slowly due to my actions.
It isn’t going to take a village to change where our world is going regarding climate change. It isn’t going to take a nation. It is going to take a world lead well.
Lead well, Mr. President.
