Here are excerpts of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s Sunday February 16th speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, in which he compares climate change to weapons of mass destruction.
Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction — all challenges that know no borders. The reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.
Think about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It doesn’t keep us safe if the United States secures its nuclear arsenal, while other countries fail to prevent theirs from falling into the hands of terrorists.
The bottom line is this: it is the same thing with climate change. And in a sense, climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.
© 2014, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.
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