Barack Obama Talks Climate Changes With ‘Rolling Stone’

On how he deals with being the leader of the world’s largest economy, but also the world’s largest polluters in a world where he also has to raise two daughters:

I think about it a lot. I think about Malia and Sasha a lot. I think about their children a lot.One of the great things about being president is you travel a lot and you get to see the world’s wonders from a vantage point that very few people get a chance to see.

When we were out on the water yesterday, going around those fjords, and the sea otter was swimming on its back and feeding off its belly, and a porpoise jumps out of the water, and a whale sprays — I thought to myself, “I want to make sure my grandchildren see this.

On if he feels sadness, about what we as humans are knowingly and unknowingly doing to our planet, and how it effects climate change:

There are some amazing, beautiful things in this world that aren’t coming back. And that should give us all pause. But I don’t wallow in sadness, because we’ve got too much work to do. The world is always changing, and there are going to be changes in our lifetime that I wish hadn’t happened. There are also changes that have eradicated polio, and changes that have reduced infant mortality. And those we celebrate.

"We see the harsh reality of it. A lot of it is quite shocking." —@BearGrylls on the effects of climate change. Check out a sneak peek of President Obama in the wild with Bear by clicking on the link in the bio, if you can bear to watch them chowing down on some salmon half-eaten by a bear. #ActOnClimate

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By-@juscallmela