“We cannot afford to let another year go by without taking bold action on climate change because the politics are too hard and too risky,” (Presidential candidate Barack) Obama claimed. “I don’t believe climate change is just a convenient issue to bring up in a campaign. It is one of the greatest challenges” that not only America, but the world, faces. (Chicago Sun-Times)
Presidential candidate Barack Obama, D-Il, has taken the climate change debate to a new level by tying the controversial topic to an even more controversial one: “moral imperatives.”
A day after former vice president Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Price for his efforts to promote awareness of the dangers of climate change, Obama was quoted in Monday’s edition of the Chicago Sun-Times touting his energy plan and urging the world’s largest carbon-emitting nations to form a global energy carbon forum.
According to Obama’s energy plan he would reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050
