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“This message has been sent since the first oil crisis of 1973. We paid attention in times of crisis, but quickly forgot as the crises passed. Let's use this price spike as the occasion to: (a) end our financial support of corrupt, dictatorial regimes around the world; (b) lower our trade imbalances and restore the strength of the dollar; (c) improve the environment; and (d) build American technological leadership.”

We have the means to accomplish this, he says: first, more fuel-efficient vehicles; then the hybrids; and finally hydrogen fuel cell or all-electric vehicles.

Bodde acknowledges that much of this remains in the future. “But it will always be in the future unless we act on what we know. And act now, with the brilliance that won the race to the moon and the perseverance that won the Cold War. But let us act," he says.

Mr Blair's message in the interview is that everyone needs to work together, but imposing strict rules would only backfire."Britain is 2% of the world's emissions. We shut down all of Britain's emissions tomorrow - the growth in China will make up the difference within two years.

"So we've got to be realistic about how much obligation we've got to put on ourselves. The danger, for example, if you say to people 'Right, in Britain ... you're not going to have any more cheap air travel,' everybody else is going to be having it.

The story was already good, but it was elevated to great in the late afternoon Back Bay gloom yesterday when Nick Green hit the first pitch thrown by Atlanta reliever Jeff Bennett high and deep over The Wall, across Lansdowne Street, over the Mass Pike and onto Commonwealth Avenue.

OK, that’s fictional. What Green did was hit about as short a home run as anyone can hit in major league baseball. It was a fly ball down the right-field line that landed just inside the Pesky Pole. It was 305 feet, 306 max.

So you've got to do this together in a way that doesn't end up actually putting people off the green agenda by saying you must not have a good time any more and can't consume. All the evidence is that if you use the science and technology constructively, your economy can grow, people can have a good time, but do so more responsibly."