The Local Faces of Global Change

摘要

"All politics is local." That's how Tip O'Neil, the late, great congressman from Massachusetts, summarized his long experience that dreams for transforming national policy wither unless rooted in the realities of particular people and places. Advocates for the global environment have been slow to appreciate O'Neil's wisdom. Their focus, from Stockholm to Rio to Kyoto, has been on building scientific consensus and political agreement at the international level.