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"Mr President, climate change is a challenge to us all. We must remember that we share this world not just with people today, but with those who come in the future. However, if our policies are going to be effective, we must distinguish between man-made and natural climate change. The first is the effect of our activities; the other is a natural process. Our landscapes, soils and river systems are all the result of natural and ongoing climate change. Man-made climate change is inexcusable. The response to it is change – change of fuels, change of consumption and change of heart.
Making the distinction is not to say that natural climate change is not a worry, but the answer to it is adaptation. Archaeologists tell us that, in the past, when the climates changed, people who could adapted and people who could not perished. Today we humans have burrowed deep. Our homes and cities are cemented into the earth’s crust. Our habits and habitats have become inflexible. Having an ice age or an era of heat is just not on our agenda at the moment: ‘please come back in an eon or so.’
The response to natural climate change is long-sighted planning, intelligent preparation and common sense. Do not build on flood plains. Plant deciduous forests. Shore up endangered coastlines. We must balance our approach to climate change between change and adaptation, between man-made and natural, and use our funds appropriately so that they will be effective."@en1
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