Realtime with Bill Maher, Sept 21, 2007

After the Cold War, the West took a vacation from history. Now it’s urgent that we get back to work.

Weeks before thermobaric rockets rained down on Ukraine, the chattering classes at the World Economic Forum declared “climate action failure” the biggest global risk for the coming decade. On the eve of war, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry fretted about the “massive emissions consequences” of Russian invasion and worried that the world might forget about the risks of climate change if fighting broke out.

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