independent.co.uk - 5/26/2009
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The Big Question: Is America finally getting real about climate change?
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... of the Republicans' belief that free markets could solve everything. Obama's approach is diametrically opposed. If anything, he has intensified his rhetoric on the issue since taking office. Some already talk of him as a "Green FDR" a president who will bring the power of government into the fight against climate change and energy wastefulness, in the same way that Franklin Roosevelt used that power to fight poverty and curb market excesses three-quarters of a century ago. Independent "
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