Obama Wants to Organize the World Around Climate Change
President Barack Obama has expressed an apocalyptic vision he suggests other reasonable people must embrace.
On Monday, in Paris, he said he foresees: “Submerged countries. Abandoned cities. Fields that no longer grow.”
And also: “Political disruptions that trigger new conflict, and even more floods of desperate peoples seeking the sanctuary of nations not their own.”
Climate change, he argues, threatens to cause these problems. Therefore, at the international climate change conference, he repeated his call for an international agreement that seeks to curb global carbon emissions from human activities.
“So I just want to repeat so that everybody understands what we will consider success several weeks from now,” Obama said at a Tuesday press conference. “Number one, that it is an ambitious target that seeks a low-carbon global economy over the course of this century.”
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