An Epidemic of Reason?
Rick Santorum, a devout Catholic and possibly the most avid opponent of abortion among the many Republican candidates, often invokes the moral power of the Pope’s position on the issue. But when it comes to climate change the former senator from Pennsylvania says this: “The climate does indeed change over time,’’ but it’s crazy to think that man is “somehow the tip of that tail that wags the whole dog.”
.. If it took the AIDS epidemic to help alter American attitudes toward gay men and lesbians, and a measles outbreak earlier this year at Disneyland to make legislators see the power of vaccines, maybe it’s not too much to hope that one day soon even the most hidebound among us will begin to acknowledge how climate change will affect us all.