Sentences with phrase «distant issue of climate»

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SO, coming back to the issues of immediacy and inertia, our hope is that the sort of commitment accounting described and demonstrated in the paper will be taken up by other analysts and used to evaluate the long - run climate impacts of current capital investments, in turn allowing policymakers to confront these distant implications of their decisions in the present.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

«Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present,» the main body of the report begins.

The survey, which was conducted in nine battleground states and surveyed registered voters of color including African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans, found that many voters of color feel climate disruption is a prominent issue that can not and will not wait for action in the distant future.