Happily hung over this morning after downing quite a few flutes of Champagne in celebration of president-elect Obama's victory last night, it's hard to think of anything besides the election and the renewed hope many of us feel for the future. As The Onion so appropriately puts it, things were finally shitty enough for Americans to overcome the racial barrier. This past week, I worried that the polls were inflated and that victory might not be a slam dunk. It's hard to believe in the electoral college after the recounts, lawsuits and hanging chad travesty in the 2000 Bush v. Gore election. Yet, I confess to daydreaming in the past week of what the world might have been like had Gore been sworn in as president in 2000. Would we as a nation have taken more action on climate change? Or did his defeat lead to the success of An Inconvenient Truth and the greening of much of America? We'll never really know, will we? It remains to be seen whether Obama will be the green president that we so desperately need. According to a Terrapass article by Alan Stein, Obama gets it about how our planet is in peril in ways no other American president has, and quotes Michael Pollan. So, here's to hope...
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