Energy Secretary Steve Chu delivers a grim warning for California: Slow the pace of climate change or the state will lose its agriculture and cities.
"Unless there is timely action on climate change, California's agricultural bounty could be reduced to a dust bowl and its cities disappear, Barack Obama's energy secretary said yesterday.
The apocalyptic scenario sketched out by Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate appointed as energy secretary, was the clearest sign to date of the greening of America's political class under the new president.
In blunt language, Chu said Americans had yet to fully understand the urgency of dealing with climate change. 'I don't think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen,' he told the Los Angeles Times in his first interview since taking the post. 'We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California. I don't actually see how they can keep their cities going.'"
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