give our children back their future
Towards the end of his speech today Obama said
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. Let us resolve that all nations - including my own - will act with the same seriousness of purpose as has your nation, and reduce the carbon we send into our atmosphere. This is the moment to give our children back their future. This is the moment to stand as one.
I hope he really has that conviction because they are going to need all the help they can get.
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The above graphic shows the projected population growth of the US to 2030. Sometime before the turn of the century it will reach over 500 million. Notice that the midwest will shrink in population while the coastal regions will grow. According to the Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, (not to mention the IPCC as well) the coastal areas are going to be among the hardest hit by climate change. The population drift is in all the wrong areas.
Our kids and grandkids and great grandkids are going to need a strong, committed leader today; one who can inspire, not just his own people, but other nations to come together to take action on climate change. John McCain is certainly not that person, indeed he is the antithesis of that person. I hope Barack Obama will be the one, I have my doubts, but he;s the best we have right now. I hope he stays true to his words.
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