You can put a band-aid on it here and there, and you try to put together policies that deal with the band-aid, but you have to step back and look at the larger kind of climate cancer that is out there and say, what can we do to reduce the longer-term impacts that are going to be profound?
Markey emphasizes the need for comprehensive solutions to climate change rather than temporary fixes.
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