1.0link106252<![CDATA[Global Warming: a Test for the Next Greatest Generation]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-alexander/global-warming-a-test-for_b_106252.htmlThe following is an edited version of the commencement address I gave on May 30 to the 2008 graduates of my alma mater, The Webb School, a college prep school in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.
Forty years ago, I was sitting where you are, about to graduate from Webb School. It was a time of great joy and relief and hope.
But 1968 was also a scary time. We were mired in a war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy had...