Obama strikes optimistic tone on climate change


NPR: President Barack Obama said “I actually think we’re going to solve this thing” about climate change.

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NPR: President Barack Obama said “I actually think we’re going to solve this thing” about climate change.

That’s what President Obama said in a news conference just before he left a United Nations summit on climate change.

“Climate change is a massive problem,” Obama said. “It is a generational problem. It’s a problem that by definition is just about the hardest thing for an political system to absorb, because the effects are gradual, they’re diffused. And yet despite all that… I’m optimistic. I think we’re going to solve it.”

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