Running out of time: Kerry on climate change
11 Oct 2014 6:43 AM IST
Kerry said the window for facing the challenge was ‘closing quickly’ and warned of dire consequences if climate change skeptics are wrong about the future and nothing is done.
‘If they’re wrong, catastrophe,’ Kerry said in Boston after visiting a wind-technology testing center
with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.
‘Life as you know it on Earth ends. Seven degrees increase Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) and we can’t sustain crops, water, life under those circumstances.’
Kerry, who has long touted environmental causes, said technological solutions could still prevent worst-case climate disasters.
‘The solution is staring us in the face. It’s very simple: clean energy,’ he said, noting the prospects for creating millions of jobs worldwide in the sector.
‘And here is the kicker,’ Kerry said, ‘the market we’re looking at is a $6-trillion market with four to five billion users on Friday, climbing to a potential nine billion users by the year 2050. It is literally the mother of all markets.’ Kerry warned that climate change already is taking a toll, noting that this past August was the hottest in the planet’s recorded history.
‘If they’re wrong, catastrophe,’ Kerry said in Boston after visiting a wind-technology testing center
with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond.
‘Life as you know it on Earth ends. Seven degrees increase Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) and we can’t sustain crops, water, life under those circumstances.’
Kerry, who has long touted environmental causes, said technological solutions could still prevent worst-case climate disasters.
‘The solution is staring us in the face. It’s very simple: clean energy,’ he said, noting the prospects for creating millions of jobs worldwide in the sector.
‘And here is the kicker,’ Kerry said, ‘the market we’re looking at is a $6-trillion market with four to five billion users on Friday, climbing to a potential nine billion users by the year 2050. It is literally the mother of all markets.’ Kerry warned that climate change already is taking a toll, noting that this past August was the hottest in the planet’s recorded history.
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