Barack Obama

And she was saying to me, Dad, I'm talking to a bunch of my friends and this climate change thing.

Everybody just feels like it's hopeless now.

It looks like we just keep on throwing this crud into the air.

People aren't listening to science.

And

We're going to blow through these targets that the scientists tell us.

If we don't keep it at 2% Celsius increase, we're going to have these catastrophes.

And it doesn't seem like there's any chance for us to do it.

So a bunch of my friends now say, what's the point?

It's too late.

So what should I tell them?

And I said, well, you know what?

It's true that we probably will blow through

this target because it's really hard for humans.

It's never been done before to completely re-engineer our energy sources in one generation.

And there's greed and profit motives and just getting people organized and legacy systems.

It's hard, but actually we're making some progress.

I said,

You know, if we're able to stop the increase at 2.5 instead of 3, there will still be a lot of disruptions and flooding and drought and wildfires and some bad stuff will happen.

But you know what?