VIDEO: Stephen Colbert: Paris Climate Agreement Sets Bar as ‘Low as It Could Possibly Go’
World leaders are being awfully self-congratulatory about doing the absolute minimum to keep the planet "hospitable for human life."World leaders are being awfully self-congratulatory about doing the absolute minimum to keep the planet “hospitable for human life.”
—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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