Carrie La Seur (North Dakota & University 1993) writes "Climate Legislation Redux: The View From the Red Seats"

"One casualty of our Too Big to Fail, 24-hour news cycle culture has been the faith that people used to put in the value of small things. Small farms, small communities, even "small" people, who will never headline a news program, but may possess priceless knowledge of a place and a people developed over generations, have slipped from most Americans' radar." Read more at the Huffington Post