Most of the climate that affects our lives is not the natural climate, but the climate of society. Strategically, however, the same rules apply. Though this climate exists in the movement of ideas, emotions, and decisions of people, not in the movement of air, water, and energy, the social climate is as dynamic, uncontrollable, and unpredictable as the natural climate. Like the natural climate, it swings from one extreme to another. You see these swings most clearly in every free market. You cannot legislate this human climate any more than you can legislate the natural climate.

Just finished training a number of comporate managers on strategy and have another book deadline coming up, so I don't have a lot of time to post, but the global warming question has generated so many thoughtful responses (recently from Steven D. and James B.) that I thought I would see if we can take the question back to issues of strategy, which after all, is the purpose of this blog.