Only 44 days left until 2010, so what do we call the 00’s? Some propositions from a funny NYT story: The Era of Misplaced Anxiety, The Decade of Disruptions, When the North Went South, The Noughty-Oughts, and…Bob. Although not a name per se, DTE likes this description by the author: “Without a doubt, we’re seven billion people driving at light speed down a dark and foggy highway and we can’t see past the windshield.”

It’s an environmental decade, for sure, with an increased awareness and the development of green technology. At the beginning of the decade, Worldwatch published a report on the greatest threats to the planet over the coming years with climate change barely mentioned. Despite the Copenhagen calamity, yes, we’re in a better place. And in 2000, when Al Gore was the Democratic presidential nominee, he declared “we are all environmentalists now” and many scoffed. Today, it’s sensible but also a message that was co-opted for greenwashing.


(Left photo: The iconic mountain that inspired Hemingway’s “Snows Of The Kilimanjaro” became a catalyst for debate this decade with glaciers melting as evidence of human caused climate change. Snows could be gone by 2022; Hem would probably reach for the bottle and weep. For the record, his best stuff was in the “roaring 20’s.”

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