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Barack Obama does not think we can stop climate change

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Carl Beijer
Jun 24, 2015
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President Obama had a lot to say about climate change in his recent podcast interview with Marc Maron, but it was a digression on lessons he’s learned in office that was most revealing:

Progress, in a democracy, is never instantaneous, and it’s always partial, and you can’t get cynical or frustrated because you didn’t’ get all the way there immediately….…

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