Politics President Obama: Don't Condemn our Children to a Planet Beyond Repair

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    https://gma.yahoo.com/president-oba...nd-repair-050642419--abc-news-topstories.html

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    President Obama: Don't Condemn our Children to a Planet Beyond Repair (ABC News)
    President Obama issued a stark warning on climate change Monday, stating that future generations will face harsh consequences if we don’t fix the issue soon.

    “Climate change is no longer some far-off problem. It is happening here. It is happening now,” he warned the representatives of more than 20 countries attending the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience, or GLACIER.

    “The time to heed the cynics and critics and the deniers has passed. The time to plead ignorance has surely passed,” Obama said. “Those who want to ignore the science, they are increasingly alone. They are on their own shrinking island.”

    “Any so-called leader who doesn’t take this issue seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead,” he said. “On this issue, of all issues, there is such a thing as being too late, and that moment is almost upon us.”

    While discussing the rising sea levels, Obama cited a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters that estimates Alaskan glaciers lose 57 gigatons, or 75 billion tons, of ice per year. To describe the size he explained it as a block of ice the of size the National Mall in Washington, D.C., stretching from Congress to the Lincoln Memorial, that is four times as tall as the Washington Monument.

    Speaking in Alaska, he emphasized the already disappearing Alaskan villages and native cultures threatened by global warming; while adding that climate change affects every facet of life on the planet.

    “Climate change is a trend that affects all trends. Economic trends, security trends, Everything will be impacted and becomes more dramatic with each passing year,” he said. “Desperate refugees seeking the sanctuary of nations not their own, political disruptions that could trigger multiple conflicts around the globe, that’s not a future of strong economic growth. That’s not a future where freedom and human rights is on the move.”

    And while he issued warning of the need to act, he also cited that the technology exists to help solve the problem and it’s not “simply a danger to be avoided, this is an opportunity to be seized.”

    Obama highlighted the agreement between the U.S. and China, the world’s two largest economies and emitters, to limit emissions, while touting that the ability to grow economies and protect the environment are no longer at odds with one another. The U.S. economy has grown nearly 60 percent over the past 20 years, while carbon emissions have dropped to levels from two decades ago, he said.

    But he was cautious to emphasize that no nation was “moving fast enough.”

    “If we were to abandon our course of action—if we stopped trying to build a clean energy economy and reduce carbon pollution—if we do nothing to stop glaciers from melting faster and oceans from rising faster and forests from burning faster and storms from growing stronger, we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair it,” he said.

    Obama added that the political will may finally be upon the world to act on the issue.

    “We know that human activity is changing the climate. That is beyond dispute. Everything else is politics,” he said.

    President Obama continues his tour of the 49th state Tuesday when he tours a glacier in Seward, Alaska.
     
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    It's impossible for humans to harm the planet. God protects it.
     
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    God gave all of us the ability to be dumbasses
     
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    The fact that humanity thinks it's powerful enough to destroy the planet is funny. Earth will wipe us out and reboot without blinking
     
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    We can't destroy the planet but we can destroy our existence on the planet.
     
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    This is 100% correct
     
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    We should rename global warming to human discomforting. No one cares about the planet but we all care how comfortable we are.
     
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    destroying the planet would include destroying our existence on it but it would take a team of explosive experts and scientists to wire it correctly...I just don't think we'll go that route.
     
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    Some more than others.
     
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    How exactly does this A: address the issue and B: have anything to do with the title to Al Gore's documentary?
     
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    When you get a virus, you get a fever.

    That's the human body raising its core temperature to kill the virus.

    Planet Earth works the same way: Global warming is the fever, mankind is the virus. We're making our planet sick. A cull is our only hope. If we don't reduce our population ourselves, there's only one of two ways this can go: The host kills the virus, or the virus kills the host. Either way the result is the same: The virus dies.
     
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    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    Because Gore invented the Internet which Denny used to show you the graph
     
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    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    2002 called, it wants its joke back.
     
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    Sorry, I thought all bets are off when you used eGore's name in this thread.

    Btw, how are those carbon credits doing????
     
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    Stop global warming you need to stop driving for leisure, stop using air conditioning, no aerosol anything, and no buying shit from china who pollutes the most!
     
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    Does that include their female prostitutes or mail order wives?
     
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    you're thinking of the Philippines.
     

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