Here is a selection of the environment-related points from US President Barack Obama's Inauguration Speech on 20 January 2009
"Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many, and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet."
"We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age."
"With old friends and former foes, we'll work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat and roll back the specter of a warming planet."
"To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds."
"And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders, nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it."
Read the full speech at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/us/politics/20text-obama.html
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