From Joe Romm's blog:
http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/27/clinton-on-kyoto-its-a-very-good-thing-to-fail-in-the-right-cause/Clinton on Kyoto: “It’s a very good thing to fail in the right cause.”
Since President Clinton’s press conference today was not webcast, I thought I would blog on that.
There’s so many good talks that I am behind on my CGI blogging, yes, and I will catch up, but I hope that you have been tuning in to the webcast — Clinton said today that 400,000 people were (up from 50,000 last year).
Clinton remains a genuine polymath (unlike Greenspan) — without notes, he gave a 7-minute history of the human race and civilization — starting 150,000 years ago in the Olduvai Gorge through today (which takes us from 1 human to 6.5 billion) through 2050 (which adds another 2.5 billion in the blink of an eye) — to give some idea of the scale and speed of the transformation taking place on this planet.
He was asked about the Kyoto Protocol, and replied “we should all be personally impatient about climate change.” But we must remember “most ideas aren’t adopted when they are first proposed.” Then he said the quote that I used in the headline, adding that such failure “keeps people stumbling in the right direction.”
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