article_snippet.sent: This has never made a lot of sense, but the new measures are the strongest acknowledgment yet that the new measures just isn't tenable today in a serious drought.
article_snippet.sent: From a pragmatic public relations perspective, maybe.
article_snippet.sent: At least in principle, this awareness can help to build the constituency for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
article_snippet.sent: Polls showed that the issue played a significant role in the national elections held during my year there, with a climate-denialist government falling to a much more climate-proactive one (though the pendulum has since swung back).
article_snippet.sent: That big picture is what should motivate us.
article_snippet.sent: They may not be enough, in the long term, but They're a start.
article_snippet.sent: We call these "no-regrets" measures, because these are good ideas regardless of how rapidly or slowly global warming proceeds.