| Kerry delivered one of his strongest climate speeches in Indonesia, a speech that would appear to be utterly irreconcilable with a decision to construct the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline ?? a decision that rests almost entirely on his shoulders. Kerry said ??The bottom line is this: in a sense, climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world ??s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction. ? And that makes the tar sands a hydrogen bomb, and it makes Keystone a loose nuke delivery system or a poorly guarded WMD. We need to keep the tar sands locked securely under ground where it can ??t harm our children and future generations. |
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