“ISIS is not an existential threat to the
United States,” he told me in one of these conversations. “Climate
change is a potential existential threat to the entire world if we don’t
do something about it.” Obama explained that climate change worries him
in particular because “it is a political problem perfectly designed to
repel government intervention. It involves every single country, and it
is a comparatively slow-moving emergency, so there is always something
seemingly more urgent on the agenda.”
President Obama, quoted by Jeffry Goldberg, in The Atlantic, today.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/
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