A nice article I found while searching for other things. This is from an appearance the JK made at MIT in April, 1998. It might be a good one to bookmark for when his and Teresa's book comes out this spring - one never knows what kind of battles we'll need to fight then.
Oh, and as a bonus, there's a photo. The man is wicked tall.
By Naveen Sunkavally
ASSOCIATE OPINION EDITOR
"Never in my political life have I run into
kind of anger and suspicion," said Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) of other countries' responses to United States' proposals at the recent Kyoto environmental summit.
Kerry spoke about government, technology, and global warming to an audience of about 100 people on Saturday in Kresge Auditorium. His primary goal was to instill a sense of great concern for the environment within the students in the audience. To do this, Kerry drew upon his experience as a Senate observer at a conference on global warming in December at Kyoto.
He began by talking about the origins of the environmental movement. "Students came together and created the movement" in the 1970's, Kerry said. By bringing environmentalism to the forefront of politics and making it a "cutting edge issue," students then helped in the passage of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, emission controls for automobiles, among other legislation.
Students today need to get the same "sense of passion" that students had 25 years ago, Kerry said. "Grass roots - that's what Earth Day is all about."
Kerry said that student support was necessary to overcome the politics of Washington and big corporations. "We have people in the U.S. Senate who do not believe that global warming is a problem today; those who do believe it is are not willing to bite the bullet."
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V118/N22/ckerry.22n.html
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