Jedi Knights of Climate Change - A Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:
Discussing global warming with my 9-year-old son Daniel, we made analogies to Star Wars. "All living creatures on our planet are at risk," I said, "but there are lots of Jedi knights working to save them." My son's matter-of-fact response hit hard: "In Star Wars, there's a happy ending. With global warming, we don't know how the story ends."
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Any compromises to greedy, shortsighted interests, and we're toast. The race to save the world is on.
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In this time of climate crisis, who are Jedi candidates? Among candidates for the U.S. Senate, Jay Buckey is a climate Jedi.
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(excerpted from the Valley News, Dec 14 2008)