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What the Kennedys might have said on Climate Change


By John - Posted on 26 August 2008

In a clever reconstruction from past speeches of John and Bobby Kennedy Bill B suggests how these two great men might have adddressed this issue of climate change today.

A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough, compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough. But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect is character; we cannot alter its inevitability. (RFK, speech to U.S. Senate May 9, 1966).
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer; but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
I look forward to a great future for America — a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor perhaps in our lifetimes on this planet. But let us begin.
For the whole 'speech' go to http://climateprogress.org/2008/08/25/what-would-jfk-and-rfk-say/