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Climate Change: Will We Have to Get Used to It?
The latest report from the UN’s Panel on Climate Change is due out on Sunday. Is it time to re-frame the issue and talk about preparing for the cost of not taking action?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenThe next summit of World Leaders on Climate Change will be next year in Paris. On Sunday, the UN's international panel of climate scientists will outline what needs to be done. Will it generate the political will for preventive action, or is it time to re-frame the issue? Also, the UN votes to send 12,000 peacekeepers to the Central African Republic. On today's Talking Point, President Obama was in Austin, Texas, today--celebrating 50 years since the Civil Rights Act signed by Lyndon Johnson. How different was the Republican Party in LBJ's era from the one Obama faces today?
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3 storiesUN to Send 12,000 Peacekeepers to the Central African Republic
The UN Security Council was unanimous today in agreeing to send 12,000 peacekeepers to the Central African Republic, where sectarian killings, torture and sexual violence have divided the country between Christians and Muslims.
Read the story8 minClimate Change: Will We Have to Get Used to It?
Warnings about climate change have been increasingly urgent, but there's no collective will to take action. Now the focus is shifting, from prevention to mitigation. Global warming is happening. If it's not going to be slowed down, how can it be coped with?
Read the story34 minLBJ, Civil Rights and Obama's Legacy
President Obama hasn't talked much about Lyndon Johnson, perhaps because of the legacy of Vietnam. Today, at LBJ's presidential library in Austin, on the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, Obama left no doubt about his own debt to the former president and his mastery of the legislative process.
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