So my message today is this: Since Congress is not acting as it should - and these guys here are, but we’re not getting many Republican votes - this is an emergency. So we have to act.Įxtreme weather disrupts supply chains, causing delays and shortages for consumers and businesses.Ĭlimate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world. Extreme weather is already damaging our military installations here in the States. Our national security is at stake as well. That is more land than the entire state of New Jersey, from New York down to the tip of Delaware. Wildfires out west that have burned and destroyed more than 5 million acres - everything in its path. Ravaging hundred-year-old droughts occurring every few years instead of every hundred years. I’ve flown over the vast majority of them out west and down in Louisiana, all across America. We see here in America, in red states and blue states, extreme weather events costing $145 billion - $145 billion in damages just last year - more powerful and destructive hurricanes and tornadoes. The U.N.’s leading international climate scientists called the latest climate report nothing less than, quote, “code red for humanity.” Let me say it again: “Code red for humanity.” It’s not a group of political official - elected officials. The health of our citizens and our communities is literally at stake. It is literally, not figuratively, a clear and present danger. I come here today with a message: As President, I have a responsibility to act with urgency and resolve when our nation faces clear and present danger. Sheldon Whitehouse - a great champion - (applause) - a great champion of the environment. It’s an honor to be joined by your neighbor by - your neighbor from Rhode Island. My National Climate Advisor is leading our climate efforts here at home. (Applause.)Īnd your great former members and one of my dearest friends, John Kerry, who’s doing a great job leading our international - (applause) - Special Presidential Envoy on Climate, traveling the world and talking with an awful lot of people he’s talking into moving more than they’ve been doing.Īnd another great Massachusetts nata- native, Gina McCarthy. (Applause.) Congressman Auchincloss -oss. (Applause.) It’s an honor to be with your outstanding members of Congress today: Senator Ed Markey. Appreciate - please, have a seat, if you have one. THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Get Involved Show submenu for “Get Involved””. The White House Show submenu for “The White House””.Office of the United States Trade Representative.Office of Science and Technology Policy.Executive Offices Show submenu for “Executive Offices””.Administration Show submenu for “Administration””.They can arrange priority entry for you as soon as the doors open. Talk to a member of staff at the auditorium entrance if you have a disability that means you can’t queue, or you need extra time to take your seat. You can also use the external lift near the Artists' Entrance on Southbank Centre Square to reach Mandela Walk, Level 2.įor access to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating rows A to C and wheelchair spaces in the Front Stalls, please enter via the Artists' Entrance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road (Level 1). Turn right to find the Queen Elizabeth Hall main entrance. Take the JCB Glass Lift to Level 2 and exit to the Riverside Terrace. To reach this entrance, enter the Royal Festival Hall via the Southbank Centre Square Doors. WOW celebrates women, girls and non-binary people, takes a frank look at the obstacles they face and discusses solutions for change.įor step-free access from the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road off Belvedere Road to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating (excluding rows A to C) and wheelchair spaces in the Rear Stalls, plus Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer and the Purcell Room, please use the Queen Elizabeth Hall main entrance. Part of WOW – Women of the World festival. The collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets promises that each reader – and everyone who joins this event – comes away changed. This is fragrant life, full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is noisy life, full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. In Shire’s hands, lives spring into fullness. In this event, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head is brought to life by Shire and Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo. This electrifying collection features poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience drawing on Shire’s own life, pop culture and news headlines. Shire is the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, and London’s first ever Young Poet Laureate. 'The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts,' says writer Roxane Gay.
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