President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd in Berlin Wednesday that nations must unite to fight the “grim” future of climate change, which will produce “severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees — coastlines will vanish, oceans will rise.”
The theme of Obama speech was “peace with justice,” and it included a call for fewer nuclear weapons.
“Peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet,” Obama said. “In the United States, we have recently doubled our renewable resources, like wind and solar power. We are doubling fuel efficiency in our cars. Our dangerous carbon emissions have come down. We know we have to do more and we will do more.”
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