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Global warming in seven wordsHere's your chance to be the Pollan of climate changePosted by David Roberts at 7:08 AM on 28 Jan 2008Kristina/Jason's plea for a tagline here reminds me: check out this post over on the NRDC Switchboard blog. It notes the success of Michael Pollan's already legendary aphorism -- "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." -- and wonders whether something similarly compact could be used to explain what people need to know about climate change. A couple of Times bloggers noted that this little pearl has a "haiku-like resonance" – seven plain words, and something about its two-word / three-word / two-word structure. Dwight Garner amused himself trying his hand at it. And then the Well blog's Tara Parker-Pope thought, Surely this warrants a competition. She posted an entry challenging her readers to vie for top honors – and received more than 1,000 submissions! (My favorite: "Call Mom. Let her talk. Don't argue.") Let's collectively come up with one and send it their way. Here's my (horrible) inaugural effort: "Electrify transport. Green the grid. Reconnect communities." Pollan I ain't. What have y'all got?
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