Climate change is personal
to U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry.
Speaking to the Atlantic Council he said, “Climate change is
an issue that is personal to me, and it has been since the 1980s, when we were
organizing the very first climate hearings in the Senate.
“In fact, it really predates that, going back to Earth Day when I’d come back from Vietnam. It was the first political thing I began to
organize in Massachusetts, when citizens started to make a solid statement in
this country. “And I might add that’s before we even had an Environmental
Protection Agency or a Clean Water Act or Safe Drinking Water Act or a Marine
Mammal Protection Act or a Coastal Zone Management Act.
“It all came out of that kind of citizen movement. And
that’s what we have to be involved in now. And the reason for that is simple:
For decades now, the science has been screaming at us, warning us, trying to
compel us to act.”
His comments are noted on the U.S. Department of State
website - “Remarks at the Atlantic Council as Part of the Road to Paris ClimateSeries”
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