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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 01:22 PM Oct 2015

Fight climate change for global stability, say US defence and diplomacy elite

Source: The Guardian

Nearly 50 leaders of America’s defence and foreign policy establishment are calling on political and business leaders to “think past tomorrow” and lead the fight on climate change.

In a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal the experts – 48 former secretaries of state and defense, national security advisers, diplomats and members of Congress from both parties – say it is time for America to claim global leadership on climate change.

The appeal is intended to apply pressure to Republicans in Congress who are trying to defeat Barack Obama’s plan to cut carbon pollution at home and seeking to limit US involvement in negotiations to reach a global deal on fighting climate change in Paris in December.

The letter, endorsed by Madeline Albright, secretary of state under Bill Clinton; Chuck Hagel, secretary of defense under Obama; George Shultz, secretary of state under Ronald Reagan; James Woolsey, CIA director under Clinton; and other prominent retired officials, declares that climate change is indeed a security threat.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/22/fight-climate-change-for-global-stability-says-us-defence-and-diplomacy-leaders



Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
Thursday 22 October 2015 06.27 BST
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Fight climate change for global stability, say US defence and diplomacy elite (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2015 OP
K & R. Get moving, time's wasting! appalachiablue Oct 2015 #1
If "fighting" doesn't include personal sacrifice, then it's worthless. Gregorian Oct 2015 #2

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)
2. If "fighting" doesn't include personal sacrifice, then it's worthless.
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 03:04 PM
Oct 2015

I laugh at these aimless attempts at doing things to curb climate change. The two biggest factors are totally ignored. But then in their defense, if we did what we have to do, the economies of the world would tank. So just feel good, and keep on driving.

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