"Clinton wants 'mass movement' on climate change"

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43. The 1970s were forty years ago.

Climate change was barely a blip on the public radar at that time. The environmental movements of the 1970s had an impact on public perception and awareness of environmental issues and led to legislative actions that addressed some important problems. That was forty years ago. Times have changed.

The kinds of fundamental, societal, changes necessary to affect climate change completely dwarf anything that was accomplished in the 1970s or any other time in our history. The legislation passed in the 1970s was child's play. Businesses made minor adjustments. New federal bureaucracies settled down to business. Life went on.

Go ahead. Bash Hillary Clinton for having the temerity to publicly suggest that climate change is a significant threat and that she hopes there will be a mass movement that demands political change.

The nerve of that woman! The deception! Shameless! Inexcusable!

It's exactly the same as the Iraq War (no it isn't.) Politicians KNOW what's necessary (no they don't) and they don't need be reminded (yes they do).

What percentage of the general population believes that climate change is not real or a hoax? Twenty percent? Thirty percent? How many think it might be a problem but not one that requires anything difficult or disruptive? Fifty percent?

How many believe it's the most profound global threat ever faced in human history, one that threatens the very existence of human civilization and the living systems on which human civilization depends, one that requires radical transformative action and fundamental changes to how modern people and societies live on the earth? Ten percent?

Who believes that the GOP -- and the millions of constituents they represent -- are ready to sit down and face the difficult choices together? Anyone?

Hillary Clinton is 100% correct. Millions of citizens in this country are either ambivalent, on the fence, or outright hostile to the threat of climate change. Politicians in Washington are generally a reflection of this fact.

Without a massive change in the American public nothing will change. The only real change is from the bottom up, not from the top down.