Obama's Bad Influence. Climate Structural Adjustment: We’ll Save Your Life On Our Terms. The Courage to Say No. Fight Climate Change, Not Wars. Memo to Danes: Even You Cannot Control This Summit. On Saturday night, after a week of living off of conference center snack bars, a group of us were invited to a delicious home-cooked meal with a real live Danish family. After spending the evening gawking at their stylish furnishings, a few of us had a question: Why are Danes so good at design? "We're control freaks," our hostess replied instantly. "It comes from being a small country with not much power. We have to control what we can. " When it comes to producing absurdly appealing light fixtures and shockingly comfortable desk chairs, that Danish form of displacement is clearly a very good thing.
The Danes have invested a huge amount of money co-branding their capitol city (now "Hopenhagen") with a summit that will supposedly save the world. Take the weekend's protests. Never mind. The arrests, part of a pattern all week, felt like a warning: deviations from the "Hopenhagen" message will not be tolerated. Ambassador Lumumba, What Do You Really Think? Copenhagen: Where Africa Took On Obama. Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up. Climate Rage : Rolling Stone. Climate Rage : Rolling Stone. Climate Rage : Rolling Stone. Climate Rage : Rolling Stone. For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow.