Barack Obama
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But you know what?
That half percent difference, that could be entire coastal villages.
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What happens in Bangladesh where hundreds of thousands or millions of people can eat instead of not eat, it could affect whether or not people can make a living where they live as opposed to trying to cross the oceans to migrate to places where they can and all the political conflicts that come with that.
That mentality of understanding we should be doing better than we're doing, it's a shame that we're stuck with that.
this crazy short-sighted approach to climate.
But let's see what we can get done.
That, I think, is the mentality that all of us have to
carry with us.
And unjustified.
I think there is no doubt that a lot of the norms, civic habits, expectations, uh,
institutional guardrails that we had, that we took for granted for our democracy, have been weakened deliberately.
I don't think they're destroyed, but I think they have been damaged.
And they've been systematic about it.
When I used to travel around the world, this is back when
uh, democracy promotion was still bipartisan.
You know, George Bush was for it.
Bill Clinton was for it.