CNN: We have a tendency to view certain public policy issues as wars. As in "the war on ... " fill in the blank: drugs, cancer, poverty.
It is often a misleading analogy, but it is meant to get the public to respond to a dire need, just as they would in wartime. The terminology, however, is entirely accurate -- and literal -- when it comes to our need to address the changing environment as "the war on climate change."
Wednesday, President Obama raised the stakes on an issue that tends to pit environmentalists...