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Climate Change Denial Is Big-Ticket & Futile, Says Obama
Obama: We Can’t Afford To Deny Climate Change
By: Sandy Dechert, 6/9/2014, 11:35:55 AM
Climate Change Denial Is Big-Ticket & Futile, Says Obama | CleanTechnica
Obama if you're serious...Why not declare a manhatten project for fusion? Invest in something that can and will bring our need for carbon fuels. Stop beating around the fucking bush if you're going for it...Make it fast and as painless as possible.
Obama: We Can’t Afford To Deny Climate Change
By: Sandy Dechert, 6/9/2014, 11:35:55 AM
In a couple of hours, everyone in the United States with access to cable TV and Showtime can hear President Barack Obama say he favors making the energy industry absorb the real price of the carbon it introduces into earth’s atmosphere. In other words, ante up the cost of carbon emissions.
From Years of Living Dangerously, airing tonight on Showtime.
So says New York Times columnist Tom Friedman in Sunday’s paper, and he should know. He interviewed Mr. Obama several weeks ago, as the President was reviewing EPA’s new emission rules for US power plants.
Their conversation appears tonight on the final episode of Showtime’s acclaimed climate series “Years of Living Dangerously.” The journalist excerpted the talk in print in the quotes shown below.
“The baseline fact of climate change is not something we can afford to deny,” Obama says. He addresses the industry:
“You can’t keep dumping it out in the atmosphere and making everybody else pay for it.”
“If there’s one thing I would like to see, it’d be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions…. [The] price of inaction—that billions and potentially trillions of dollars are going to be lost because we do not do something about it—ultimately leads us to be able to say, ‘Let’s go ahead and help the marketplace discourage this kind of activity.’”
As well as discussing how some deny climate change in the face of “bread-and-butter issues” that touch American families deeply (like increasingly serious drought and flooding), the President points out the profound national security implications, brought up by the Secretary of Defense and Joints Chiefs of Staff in the recent quadrennial defense review. (We at PlanetSave and our sister publication, CleanTechnica, discussed a military panel’s in-depth analysis of these effects several weeks ago.)
The President also admits that he views natural gas as “a blessing and a curse.” In the end he fingers methane as the chief climate culprit and states that new federal law might not be necessary to temper its effects, because the job could be done by “a series of states working together—and, hopefully, industry working together—to make sure that the extraction of natural gas is done safely.”
Climate Change Denial Is Big-Ticket & Futile, Says Obama | CleanTechnica
Obama if you're serious...Why not declare a manhatten project for fusion? Invest in something that can and will bring our need for carbon fuels. Stop beating around the fucking bush if you're going for it...Make it fast and as painless as possible.
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