The Hun

 About ten years ago someone asked me what I thought was our number one problem, and I replied that it was climate change. Among the issues that exist, climate change is the one most likely to harm, even kill, billions of people. That process has already begun in the United States. Getting a government to do something to mitigate the looming catastrophe has seemed nearly impossible, but today the Obama administration announced tough requirements for new coal-fired power plants--and power plants account for a third of all our greenhouse gas emissions. This move has, of course, made the President the enemy of the coal companies and the people who work for them or clean the workers' clothes or service their automobiles and so on. The problem is that if you can see consequences beyond the next paycheck, you are the enemy of our economic system and more villainous than Attila the Hun.