Obama, too, needs to step up his efforts; it's not just Congress and the voters who have been misguided. Those close to the president say he understands the seriousness of global warming. But despite the issue's moral gravity, he's been paralyzed by political caution. He leads from the rear on climate change, not from the front.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Obama, too, needs to step up his efforts; it's not just Congress and the voters who have been misguided. Those close to the president say he understands the seriousness of global warming. But despite the issue's moral gravity, he's been paralyzed by political caution. He leads from the rear on climate change, not from the front." in the context of "Mike Tidwell in The Global Warming Reader edited by Bill McKibben (2012)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.