In a speech at COP26, former US President Obama said Earth has been wounded by our own actions. But he said those wounds can still 'be healed.'
Former President Barack Obama went to the international climate conference in Glasgow on Monday because climate envoy John Kerry knew the Biden administration needed help convincing the world America was actually serious about combating climate change.
But as much as Obama expressed regret for former President Donald Trump's"four years of active hostility towards climate science" and the climate denialism which defines the modern Republican Party, he expressed a deeper, broader worry that politics all over the world is falling short of what needs to be done to save the planet.
Addressing the younger people in the audience, Obama said"you're right to be frustrated.""For most of your lives, you've been bombarded with warnings about what the future will look like if we don't address climate change," Obama said."And you've grown up watching many of the adults who are in a position to do something about it either act like the problem doesn't exist or refuse to make the hard decisions necessary to address it.
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