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Commentary: Climate change is a superpower. Mobilizing all nations to fight it is the only viable resistance

The world has been experiencing the steady and mounting impact of climate disruption for the last few decades. The United Nations’ annual Climate Change Summit has long been warning of irreversible serious disruption caused by melting ice caps, rising sea levels, worsening hurricane and typhoon seasons, extreme heat waves, droughts and forest fire seasons here, and increased torrential rain bursts and destructive floods there.

Climate change is now every nation’s top security threat, including the U.S. In World War II, Adolf Hitler’s armies marched across Poland, France

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