{"id":7513,"date":"2015-08-03T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2015-08-04T23:21:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T04:21:41","slug":"potus-will-lead-in-reversing-climate-change-healing-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/potus-will-lead-in-reversing-climate-change-healing-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"POTUS will lead in reversing climate change &#038; healing the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-03-at-2.49.20-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-03-at-2.49.20-PM-1024x502.jpg\" alt=\"Obama announcing Clean Power Plan\" width=\"640\" height=\"314\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-03-at-2.49.20-PM-1024x502.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-03-at-2.49.20-PM-225x110.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-03-at-2.49.20-PM-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-03-at-2.49.20-PM.jpg 1872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Speaking via live feed from the White House today, a visionary President Obama announced his administration&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/08\/03\/fact-sheet-president-obama-announce-historic-carbon-pollution-standards\">Clean Power Plan<\/a>, which has been created to reverse climate change and help heal our world of the effects of global warming. The President joined <a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html\">Pope Francis<\/a> in calling for global citizens and industry leaders to make immediate and sweeping changes in how we live, work and do business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is such a thing as too late, when it comes to climate change,&#8221; the President commented, and pointed out that 14 of the hottest years in over 100 years of recorded history have occurred in the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Watch President Obama&#8217;s enthusiastically received speech:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RQ6N8zN3RCA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In my lifetime, I can&#8217;t remember being so moved by a president&#8217;s speech. We look to society&#8217;s top leaders to protect and guide us, but so often they fail us instead. Today, Obama&#8217;s demeanour and announcement visibly demonstrated that he completely has our backs and I am so grateful to him.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"aligncenter\">I&#39;m sure we can greatly thank Sasha &amp; Malia Obama &amp; what they bring home from school for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\">@POTUS<\/a>&#39; concern about environment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/actonclimate?src=hash\">#actonclimate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/p2?src=hash\">#p2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kimi Wei (@kimiwei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kimiwei\/status\/628270951575195648\">August 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The President also laughed at Big Money&#8217;s false claims that environmental protections will hurt most the poor and vulnerable of our country. President Obama pointed out that neighbors in social and environmental justice communities are in reality, those being hardest hit by the impacts of fossil fuel pollution and the effects of climate change and stand to benefit most from the changes outlined in his Clean Power Plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"aligncenter\">If you care about low-income &amp; minority communities give them help they need &amp; stop trying to rob them of healthcare ~ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\">@POTUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/actonclimate?src=hash\">#actonclimate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kimi Wei (@kimiwei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kimiwei\/status\/628272370244055041\">August 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking via live feed from the White House today, a visionary President Obama announced his administration&#8217;s new Clean Power Plan, which has been created to reverse climate change and help heal our world of the effects of global warming. The President joined Pope Francis in calling for global citizens and industry leaders to make immediate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/potus-will-lead-in-reversing-climate-change-healing-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;POTUS will lead in reversing climate change &#038; healing the world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[979,1,1082,1913,5,563,16],"tags":[1946,294,1944,612,1945],"class_list":["post-7513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-all","category-dei","category-environment","category-government-trade","category-justice","category-transformation","tag-asthma","tag-climate-change","tag-dirty-energy","tag-environment","tag-environmental-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7533,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions\/7533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}