| Obama Challenges Sounds Alarm on Climate Change | 4 September 15 |
"We’re not moving fast enough. None of the nations represented here are moving fast enough," Obama said, sounding like your loving but constantly disappointed uncle in one of his rare moments of anger: "This is within our power. This is a solvable problem if we start now. We’re starting to see that enough consensus is being built internationally, and within each of our own body politics, that we may have the political will – finally – to get moving. "The time to heed the critics and the cynics and the (climate) deniers is passed. The time to plead ignorance is surely passed. Those who want to ignore the science, they are increasingly alone. They are on their own shrinking island. If we were to abandon our course of action ... we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair. "Any leader willing to take a gamble on a future like that – any so-called leader who doesn’t take this issue seriously or treats it like a joke – is not fit to lead."
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