“We cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming is not a someday problem, it is now. We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, the periods of drought. By 2050 famine could force more than 250 million from their homes . . . . The polar ice caps are now melting faster than science had ever predicted. . . . This is not the future I want for my daughters. It's not the future any of us want for our children. And if we act now and we act boldly, it doesn't have to be.” [Barack Obama, Portsmouth, NH, 10/8/07]
His pledge for healthy environment proposes a system implementation to reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050 and to encourage carbon trading. He also proposes clean energy economy, energy efficiency etc.
There is a proposal of new forum of largest green house gases emitters, G8+ BRIC countries (except Russia) but includes Mexico and South Africa and this forum to complement in developing post Kyoto framework along with UN.
His fact sheet also talks about new Lead free toys act; fight against mercury pollution, nuclear material and more importantly against genetically modified food crops.
6.12.08
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