We’ve just published the latest issue of Clever Magazine, www.clevermag.com, our first environmental issue. We asked for “good news” and we got some, but it’s not enough. As Al Gore pointed out in his Nobel speech, we must act quickly because “too late” is almost here.

In the meantime, the USA and China, the biggest polluters and the cause of the problem in the first place, are dithering. Unfortunately, the environmental crisis must be solved through political action. Individual efforts are not enough. That’s why the good news about individual efforts is not enough.

Both Bush administrations were firmly anti-environmentalist. The current Bush wants to turn back the clock to when we were even bigger polluters in the interest of oil men and run-away capitalism. It’s frustrating to watch our politicians doing nothing except blocking all bills and ideas that could help tackle this problem.

What On Earth will it take to start the US on the right direction? I’m thinking 2008 is the year that will bring us a change. We must ask all the presidential candidates what they intend to do about global warming and then choose accordingly.

Can the Earth wait that long?