It's a great honor for me to chair Earth Day 2000, especially because the primary focus of this year's campaign is global warming. Global warming has to be the greatest misnomer of the new millennium, as it is such a benign, almost soothing name for the single most important environmental threat to the future of our planet and all living things on it.
This new millennium balances us on the edge of history. If we continue to ignore the issue of global warming, we will almost certainly suffer the drastic effects of climatic changes worldwide.
I recently came upon a magazine...