Obama Warns of ‘Submerged Countries, Abandoned Cities’ if No Action Taken to Fight Global Warming

President Barack Obama issued one of his most dire warnings about climate change Monday, in Anchorage, Alaska, where he will spend the bulk of the week highlighting the issue that has been a priority in his administration.

 

“If we stopped trying to build a clean energy economy and reduce carbon pollution, if we do nothing to prevent glaciers from melting faster and oceans from rising faster, and forests from burning faster and storms from growing stronger, we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair,” Obama said speaking at the GLACIER Conference.

 

The president explained the consequences would be: “submerged countries, abandoned cities, fields no longer growing, indigenous people who can’t carry out traditions that stretch back millennial, entire industries of people who can’t practice their livelihoods, desperate refugees seeking the sanctuary of nations not their own, political disruptions that could trigger multiple conflicts around the globe.”

 

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