Peggy NoonanBut one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
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If the world is to survive and we are to enjoy a future, we must lower the temperature of our way of living. Every way we can. There’s no other way. We must all do what we can, and we must begin right now.
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