Obama warns climate change will make global politics more toxic
Former President Obama on Tuesday dismissed climate change skeptics and warned that the world’s inability to effectively tackle the issue will toxify global politics.
“It is indisputable that although we can't ascribe any particular kind of weather event to rising temperatures, that at the current pace that we are on, the scale of tragedy that will consume humanity is something we have not seen in perhaps recorded history if we don't do something about it,” Obama said during a trip to Calgary, according to CTV News.
“Imagine when you have not a few hundred thousand migrants who are escaping poverty or violence or disease, but you now have millions. Imagine if you start seeing monsoon patterns in the Indian subcontinent changing so that half a billion people can't grow food and are displaced,” he added. “Think about what that does to the politics of the world -- not just the economics of it, not just the environment.”
Obama was an outspoken proponent of combating climate change while in the White House. The U.S. under his watch was one of the signatories of the historic Paris climate accord, in which world powers agreed to take measurable steps to reduce their manmade footprint on the environment. President Trump announced in 2017 that the U.S. would withdraw from the agreement.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/432773-obama-warns-climate-change-will-make-global-politics-more-toxic
And shit for brains Trump still believes it isn't real.
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