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Despite only housing 5% of the world population, we contribute approximate 20% of the world's atmospheric pollution, and it is set to increase. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, in its Annual Energy Outlook (2011) report, predicted that at its current trajectory, CO2 emissions primarily from fossil fuels would rise by another 16% in fifteen years time, irrevocably committing the nation towards the path of complete environmental failure.
We are staring at the edge of the precipice now, as our lack of political will in combating the excesses of our industrial and manufacturing waste is going to, at the current rate, poison the very air that we breathe in a matter of decades. Second hand smoke will be looked upon with amusement then, as CO2 emissions exceeds 1,000 parts per million of our breathable air. This is an issue that will affect our children in the long run, and many parents in the United States will be looking at the issue with concern.
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Declared 2012 Democratic Presidential Candidate
Current President of the United States
Barack Obama
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Obama Position on the Environment
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• Obama said, "So we have a choice to make. We can remain one of the world's leading importers of
foreign oil, or we can make the investments that would allow us to become the world's leading
exporter of renewable energy. We can let climate change continue to go unchecked, or we can help
stop it. We can let the jobs of tomorrow be created abroad, or we can create those jobs right here
in America and lay the foundation for lasting prosperity."
• Obama is working towards reducing the carbon pollution which he sees as a threat to our climate
and will perpetuate the dependence on fossil fuels. Obama lists out his policies to close the carbon
loophole and imposing stringent measures on carbon polluters.
• Obama believes that carbon pollution can be put at check through a market based cap. This is not
only an environmentally friendly measure, but will address certain energy challenges too. The
income that is generated in the process of closing the carbon loophole will be returned to the
people, especially those families, communities and business which are vulnerable.
• Obama also exhorted to save the future generations from a catastrophe of global proportions by
spelling out an energy plan wherein the carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced.
• "We've been talking about climate change in Washington for years and energy independence and
efficiency for years," Obama said. "But no matter how many scientists testified about greenhouse
gases, no matter how much evidence that they're threatening our coasts and endangering our weather
patterns, nothing happened with global warming until now."
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