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Edward M. Kennedy: Ignoring climate change will have devastating effects--more famine, more drought, more widespread pandemics, more…

On the recordApril 1, 2009
Ignoring climate change will have devastating effects--more famine, more drought, more widespread pandemics, more natural disasters, more resource scarcity, and human displacement on a massive scale.
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Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts

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Kennedy emphasizes the severe consequences of neglecting climate change.

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