Sentences with phrase «carbon future for our children»

This global point of view extends to action on climate change and the economic potential inherent in pursuing a clean energy, low - carbon future for our children.

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We have a moral obligation to leave our children a planet that's not polluted or damaged, and by taking an all - of - the - above approach to develop homegrown energy and steady, responsible steps to cut carbon pollution, we can protect our kids» health and begin to slow the effects of climate change so we leave a cleaner, more stable environment for future generations.

In addition to stopping the seas from rising we shall undertake to protect protect our children and future generations of unaborted from the effects of climate change by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping pollutants and by taking sensible steps to prepare for changes in climate that are no longer avoidable.

A state - mandated price on carbon will ensure that all businesses do more to ensure a healthy future for ourselves and our children.

We have as much a duty to reduce our carbon emissions for the sake of the starving child on the other side of the planet as we do the starving child a thousand years into the future.

«The bottom line for our nation is that cleaner power will cut harmful carbon pollution, protect our children from dangerous smog and other serious climate impacts, and help secure a safe and prosperous future.»

«My husband and I deliberated for years about whether to have a child at all, partly because parenting in an affluent society is, shall we say, a carbon - intensive activity, and partly because we knew that future generations will probably have to contend with the consequences of a severely disrupted climate.

«Today, we build on that progress by proposing common - sense standards that will begin to put an end to the limitless release of carbon pollution from our power plants, creating cleaner air and a healthier environment for our children and for future generations,» Mr. Obama said in a statement.

But he says it would «provide low - carbon energy infrastructure for the children of today and future generations».