September 23, 2014 — Secretary of State John Kerry made clear during recent remarks with foreign leaders: Dealing with climate change demands the same level of “immediacy” as dealing with Islamic State terrorists, he said.
Mr. Kerry faulted global warming with the creation of “climate refugees” and maintained that weather changes were causing the world’s nation’s to battle over dwindling and precious resources, such as water, The Hill reported.
“We see people fighting over water in some places,” he said, The Hill reported. “There are huge challenges to food security and challenges to the ecosystem, our fisheries and … the acidification of the ocean is a challenge for all of us. And when you accrue all of this, while we are confronting ISIL, and we are confronting terrorism and we are confronting Ebola and other things, those are immediate.”
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