The economic troubles generated by the Great Recession dimmed congressional interest in pursuing potentially disruptive climate fixes, believes Inglis, who is a proponent of market-based climate policies.
The oil exporters and the oil companies that feed our petroleum fix believe they are saving civilization.
"He told me about it after it was fixed, I believe," Mr. Wolfson said.
Some of the problems could be fixed, I believe, by more communication from The Times — more frequent and prominent explanation of things like comment cutoffs.
Inequality and unfairness can't always be fixed, he believes; the best you can do in a democracy is try, through the parry and thrust of electoral politics, to bring the majority around to your point of view.
Doubleday, meanwhile, sensing complications ahead, had withdrawn as Frank's theatrical agent, finding Levin's presence — injected by Frank — too intrusive, too maverick, too independent and entrepreneurial: fixed, they believed, only on his own interest, which was to stick to his insistence on the superiority of his work over all potential contenders.
While the Labrecques are speaking Baytex's language, suing for an injunction to force the company to shut down operations until emissions are fixed, they believe they will never be able to ever safely return to their home.
Journalists are not trained to fix problems – believe me – but to communicate them to those who could do something about them.
"No candidate should get away with these really facile platitudes of 'Oh, I'll fix it, believe me, I'll fix it.' Tell me how," said Baird, who is the primary force behind the initiative.
In a way, the passage out from Snowflake Bentley to the new snowflake stories is typical of the way our vision of nature has changed over the past century: Bentley, like Audubon, believed in the one fixed image; we believe in truths revealed over time — not what animals or snowflakes are, but how they have altered to become what they are.
