For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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What happens in one region affects people across the world.
Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.
Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.
The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
The U.S. people have a major role to play to solve, to save this planet.
We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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