The Obama Doctrine

“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/