"Tenacity is the Rodney Dangerfield of virtues- we underestimate it. It maintains a peculiar relationship to time. Unlike bravery or generosity, fed by crisis or sudden opportunity, tenacity must hang on during long fallow seasons and droughts, when it almost seems pointless. Tenacity is the ultimate expression of hope and faith. And just as the scientists warn us that reversing climate disruption will take a long time, and that the price for the pollution we have already unleashed will be with us for many lifetimes, so too the path for reversing our climate folly has a long arc, something we often lose track of.
"In the last quarter of 2011 that arc of common sense broke through to the surface- because important chunks of the human community have been sticking at the task of climate rescue.
So here's to tenacity- the virtue we need more of. May the year 2012 be filled with it."
read the full article: "Climate Dawn" by Carl Pope, Executive Chairman, Sierra Club
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