It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.
We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.
The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry.
The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.
The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.
Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.
The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change.
So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.