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Obama is doing what McConnell won’t on climate change

Re: Sen Mitch McConnell’s commentary, “Obama’s reckless plan goes to U.N.,” Dec. 2.

It is worth remembering that the reckless LACK of a plan to prevent the current environmental crisis is precisely what President Barack Obama is addressing in Paris. Someone has to lead the world out of this crisis by example, and it’s certainly not something Sen. McConnell is inclined to do.

Shame on you, senator, for failing to protect our children’s children from this relentless, greed-driven earth-fouling doomsday. What a cheap political shot: calling Obama’s effort an “attack on the middle class.”

Anton Vesely, Los Osos

This story was originally published December 3, 2015 at 4:17 PM with the headline "Obama is doing what McConnell won’t on climate change."

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