“[A] pervasive sense up to now has been that climate change is distant — distant in time, and distant in space…And what we’re now beginning to see is that it’s not so distant. I have a nine-year-old son — he’s going to be my age in the year 2050. I don’t want him to live in the world that we’re currently hurtling towards.”~ Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
Watch Leiserowitz on Moyers & Company discuss why a single-degree climate changes on Earth make a huge difference: