We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we’re going to suffer the consequences – together.
I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that’s beyond fixing.
Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don’t have time to deny it – they’re busy dealing with it.
The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.
While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.
Those of us in positions of responsibility, we’ll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity.
The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.
We can’t just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face.
A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.
So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.
We want our children to live in a world without the destructive power of a warming planet.
No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution.
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return.
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril.
The silence killed your faith.
The pain I felt was my father’s pain.
How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?
We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged aren’t getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who has struggled more.
I don’t believe people should to be able to own guns.
I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer’s lobby.