Political Quotes

“Earth Day 2017 provides an important opportunity to raise awareness of the consequences of President Trump's executive action abandoning meaningful progress on climate. Left unchecked, climate change will continue to harm the health and safety of our communities. That is why the American Public Health Association declared 2017 as the Year of Climate Change and Health. Seasonal changes, higher temperature, droughts, and severe storms are leading to more heat-related illnesses and death, increased asthma attacks, and more severe allergies. The scientific evidence is clear: climate change endangers human health. The health harms of climate change led 11 medical societies to form the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, which recently issued a report titled: ``Medical Alert! Climate Change Is Harming Our Health.'' One of the consortium doctors said: ``The worst-case scenarios of climate change really worry me. It would mean a level of human suffering we can hardly contemplate, much less respond to.'' Mr. Speaker, we can't allow that to happen. This problem demands immediate action, not denial, and certainly not delay. ____________________”