Rhetoric Roundup: Obama Calls For All Nations to Fight Climate Change, China’s Hu Defines Responsibility
President Obama’s speech at the United Nations summit on climate change spent considerable time on the concept of responsibility. Namely, that all countries — rich and poor, developed and emerging — are responsible and must share the burden of climate change. It’s an interesting shift by a president, who has more recently kept his remarks on climate change focused on the economic benefits of moving to a green economy. Job creation, independence from foreign oil, safeguarding American consumers and promoting U.S. competitiveness are common talking points from the administration. There’s good reason the conversation about climate change — here in the U.S. — has remained fixed on jobs. It’s what Americans care and worry about. And if the Senate hopes to…
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