Climate activists put the heat on Obama

The Nation: "As visionary as Obama is, he is hamstrung by his pragmatism.' So says Michael Marx of the Sierra Club, America's largest grassroots environmental organization. It is therefore "incumbent on our movement,' Marx continues, to press the president to be more visionary than pragmatic during his second term--above all on climate change, the make-or-break challenge for our civilization. One way to push Obama is through "a show of force," Marx says, by turning out large numbers of people at two big climate...

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