Obama: ‘We Are Still Confused, Blind, Shrouded With Hate, Anger, Racism, Mommy Issues’
“The reason we don’t do it is because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues,” Obama said.
Here is the excerpt from his remarks were he explained why he believes people are not dealing correctly with climate change:
"Climate change, we are going to have to come up with some new technologies to solve the problem as much as we need to. Although even on something like that, right now I could take off-the-shelf existing technologies, we could reduce carbon emissions by, let say, 30 percent, without any, you know, it’s not like we would all have to go back to caves and, you know, live off, you know, fire. We could have electricity and smart phones and all that stuff, which would buy us probably another 20, 30 years for that technological breakthrough that is necessary.
"The reason we don’t do it is because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues. I mean, we are fraught with stuff and so, if that’s the case, then the single most important thing that we have to invest in is not all—and, look, I am huge supporter of science and technological research and social science and evidence-based learning and all that good stuff, people call me Spock for a reason. I believe in reason and logic and all these Enlightenment values. But the thing that we really have to invest in is people. We got to get people to figure out how they work together in a, you know. How do we get people to work together in a thoughtful, cooperative, constructive way?"
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