Members of the General Assembly,
Here I stand before you, standing today, as a representative of a free world that is free because America has always supported freedom, and it will always do so to keep free people free.. Because freedom means that everyone who is free is free to live a free life.
But today that freedom of the past is threatened by those who would pour gasoline which is a fossil fuel on the fires of war. And this is why climate change is a threat. Heat waves and drought have affected millions where it has been hotter than it was, and still some would throw gasoline—and not just gasoline but gas and coal— on the fires of war.
And that is why America has rejoined the Paris Accord—to protect the lives of women and their right to choose in a world without heat waves [she laughs for no apparent reason] and without floods and droughts and weather of any kind except the weather of peace and mild temperatures. America is ready to commit trillions of dollars to this effort because to save the world from climate change is to save it from war.
And that is why I stand before you today and will continue to stand before you, as America has stood with you, and will stand with you well into the future as time progresses. As I have said repeatedly many times before today [she points in one direction and then in the opposite direction as though using a timeline], “What can be, unburdened by what has been.”
So as we look to a future that has yet to come and as we leave a past behind, we will strive for what can be unburdened by what has been. [She laughs]
Thank you.
Here I stand before you, standing today, as a representative of a free world that is free because America has always supported freedom, and it will always do so to keep free people free.. Because freedom means that everyone who is free is free to live a free life.
But today that freedom of the past is threatened by those who would pour gasoline which is a fossil fuel on the fires of war. And this is why climate change is a threat. Heat waves and drought have affected millions where it has been hotter than it was, and still some would throw gasoline—and not just gasoline but gas and coal— on the fires of war.
And that is why America has rejoined the Paris Accord—to protect the lives of women and their right to choose in a world without heat waves [she laughs for no apparent reason] and without floods and droughts and weather of any kind except the weather of peace and mild temperatures. America is ready to commit trillions of dollars to this effort because to save the world from climate change is to save it from war.
And that is why I stand before you today and will continue to stand before you, as America has stood with you, and will stand with you well into the future as time progresses. As I have said repeatedly many times before today [she points in one direction and then in the opposite direction as though using a timeline], “What can be, unburdened by what has been.”
So as we look to a future that has yet to come and as we leave a past behind, we will strive for what can be unburdened by what has been. [She laughs]
Thank you.
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