socialmedian: Carl Pope: The Best and Worst of Times

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Source: Huffington Post

Nov 04, 2009

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A year ago the American people voted for change. Central to what persuaded them was then-candidate Barack Obama's promise of a new way of thinking about energy and the environment, a restored respect for scientific integrity, and the leveraging of clean energy to jump start the American economy, rebuild the industrial heartland, and restore American global leadership.

How are we -- and the new Administration -- doing?

I'm inclined to steal from Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." The past year has demonstrated that the new President meant what he said about a fundamentally different approach. He has appointed a committed and dedicated group of tremendously talented people to help him, has laid down some very strong markers, and has done a phenomenal job of wheeling most of the federal bureaucracy onto a new path. But while doing all of this, he's solved none of the fundamental dilemmas and is evading others.

So why the best of times?

Science is back. It is back where it really matters, with people like John Holdren as Science Advisor,

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