238 Climate Management Issues
during which he made the following points about his policy on climate
change:
• “Year after year, decade after decade, we’ve chosen delay over deci-
sive action. Rigid ideology has overruled sound science. Special
interests have overshadowed common sense. Rhetoric has not led to
the hard work needed to achieve results, and our leaders raise their
voices each time there’s a spike on gas prices, only to grow quiet
when the price falls at the pump.”
• “Now America has arrived at a crossroads. Embedded in American
soil, in the wind and the sun, we have the resources to change. Our sci-
entists, businesses, and workers have the capacity to move us forward.”
• “It falls on us to choose whether to risk the peril that ...