The recommendation that this approach be "whole government" (drawing on the government's excellent climate science skills) is wise, but one thing will become really clear quickly.
"When you're thrown into that cauldron, things become really clear — the things that are important," she says.
When you become really clear about what you want in your life and you take action to go out and get it, nothing, not even that little voice in your head, will be able to stop you.
"It became really clear, within two minutes".
The terrible danger of the authoritarian system, however, became really clear only at the moment when we were approaching the end.
"If people were going to see me as Asian," she said, "it became really clear to me that I owed it to myself to know what that meant.
"It became really clear that it wasn't just about liking pink or feminine things," said Kathryn Mathis, Coy's mother, recounting how Coy had anxiety attacks when people treated her as a boy.
Still, Ms. Borgstrom said, "in the past five or six years it became really clear to us that the Internet was going to become a really important tool for them to be able to expand, create jobs, grow and thrive".
"I think as soon as McCain started pulling ahead, it became really clear to me that that was probably the swan song," said Karin Gallet, founder of the New York chapter of Unite for Mike, a movement to draft the mayor for a third-party run.
Los Angeles novelist Attica Locke, 37, was shortlisted for the Orange prize for Black Water Rising, and has just published her second book, The Cutting Season In the summer of 2008, when it became really clear to me that Obama was going to be the nominee of the Democratic party and that this man was actually very likely to be president of our country, I started having panic attacks.
It became really clear to me that whether we operate with an official or unofficial license, a social license was hugely important to us.
