01/21/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"In my view, we have got to make it clear to the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of our planet."
"If we do nothing, the effects of climate change will lead to the deaths of 1.5 million people across the globe every single year."
"The cost of inaction, of not combating climate change, will be far, far more expensive in every way than transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel."
"In the end, sadly, history is likely to judge the actions of the CEOs of fossil fuel companies as causing more death and more human misery than the tobacco industry."