The Last Green Mile when we wake up 20 years from now and find that the Atlantic Ocean is just outside Washington,
D.C., because the polar icecaps are melting, we may look back at this pivotal election. We may wonder
whether it wasn't the last moment when a U.S. policy to deal with global warming might have made a
difference, and we may ask why the party most concerned about that, the Greens, helped to elect Mr. Bush by
casting 97,000 Nader votes in Florida.