Bill Clinton on Dealing with Climate Change

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007526.html


Climate change is an opportunity. That was the message Bill Clinton brought to an amazing speech at last week's U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting here in Seattle.

Now, I don't often recommend speeches by politicians, of any party. It is in the nature of a political speech to be milquetoast. They lack substance. They lack a willingness to confront the massive challenges we face today. They lack a sense of the possible.

But Clinton's speech is different. It is, quite simply, the best speech on climate given by an American politician (other than Al Gore) I've ever heard -- it's the sort of speech I wish a sitting president would stand up and deliver before Congress and the nation. I've been thinking about writing the speech I wish a politician would deliver about climate change -- as I did before on the tsunami -- but this time about the climate crisis. Now, I don't need to. This is it.

http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=5200703