It's one heck of a time to be a politician

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How to get politicians to take global warming seriously

March 14, 2009 | by Jules Evans | More on Climate and resource scarcity | 3 comments

Political leaders are driven by a desire for power. They will tend to follow whatever is politically expedient in order to gain power. Right now, it is politically expedient only to make token efforts to try and prevent climate change, without making the el