The Partnership Post
BY WALT MINNICK
April 21, 2015
Forty-five years ago, I took a job in the Nixon White House charged with setting up our nation’s international drug control program. While dealing with heroin addiction and the Vietnam War were higher priorities, there was a buzz in 1970 about a “new cause," protecting the environment.
Darryl Fears of the Washington Post cites two new studies suggesting sea-level rise will be higher and potentially more devastating than earlier projections have noted. A University of Washington study and another authored by Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth science at the University of California at Irvine who was commissioned by NASA, both suggested that the melting is unstoppable and will take place over 200 - 1,000 years and dump several feet of new water into the oceans.
Check out this YouTube video from our friends at the Pricing Carbon Initiative!
Message from the founders of The Partnership for Responsible Growth
Oct. 24, 2014
The three of us, having raised families and had active business and professional careers, came to the conclusion last spring that we wanted to focus the remainder of our professional lives on something truly significant, an issue that could make a real difference to our children and their future. Since in our business and professional careers we have all had considerable experience working for and with the federal government, we concluded that finding a way to help our nation deal more effectively with climate change was the ideal challenge. Not easy, but critically important and politically possible.
