Obama must step up on climate change
This December the whole world will be watching the United Nations in Copenhagen as world leaders build the framework for an international treaty to fight climate change. The Obama administration must take a firm stand in moving climate negotiations forward.
The United States has shown that it wants to fight climate change by electing a president who is deeply committed to the same goal. President Obama has shown he wants to meet that goal by placing highly knowledgeable and equally committed individuals in his administration.
He has talked the right kind of talk recently and called for a significant agreement that will begin to immediately fight the ravages of climate change. Now he can prove to us and the rest of the world that he understands how dire the consequences of inaction will be.
The world will follow America's lead on this issue. We must seize the opportunity of passing bold new federal policy if we want to finally solve the problem of climate change and create millions of good paying clean energy jobs in the process.
Robert Davidson
Palatine