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For example, for centuries, folk wisdom had it that smoking was bad for you. Remember being told “Tobacco stunts your growth?” In the 1950s scientists joined the Innovators and established a link between smoking and disease. Controversy continued, but after the US Surgeon General and Congress put the warning labels on cigarette packs, the Early Adopters gave up smoking. I suppose I belonged to the Early Majority. When I moved to Palo Alto in the 1970s, I was smoking three packs a day. I was assaulted with the anti-smoking movement. Co-workers encouraged me to quit, and strangers treated me like a pariah. Within a year, I quit. When I moved to Pittsburgh in the 1980s the Late Majority was still smoking in the supermarkets. Then laws were passed to persuade them and the Laggards. The whole experience changed my opinion about social pressure. Since I was glad to have stopped smoking and realized the social pressure had helped me, I decided it was a good thing.
s]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:21:09 +0000 mod http://svigs.pbwiki.com/The+Temperate+Zone email.hidden@example.com (James Morris) James Morris edited The Temperate Zone Thomas Friedman says that the ultimate solution is producing clean technology so cheap the Chinese and other developing nations adopt it. Doing that that requires huge investments that only Wall St. can muster. Investors will act only if the government creates the conditions that give those investments a chance to pay off. Our government won’t act unless the public demands it. Hence a citizens’ movement is needed. This will require political leadership we have haven’t seen for generations.
My opinion is that two steps are needed:
own JASON, outside the usual institutional structure (IPCC, etc.) JASON which actually spoke out on this subject decades ago. The Green Shift project represents my views on some things to do.
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