Pompeo’s Solution To Dealing With Climate Change: ‘Move To Different Places’

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Mike Pompeo speaks at the American Enterprise Institute, January 23, 2018 in Washington, DC. Pompeo stated that the CIA believes that Ki... WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Mike Pompeo speaks at the American Enterprise Institute, January 23, 2018 in Washington, DC. Pompeo stated that the CIA believes that Kim Jong Un is a 'rational actor' but they have concerns about the information Kim may be receiving from those around him. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s got a solution to avoiding the harms of climate change: Just live somewhere else.

Pompeo gave an interview to the Washington Times on Friday, during which he addressed the Trump administration’s approach to combating global warming.

The top diplomat claimed that the climate “always changes,” and so “societies reorganize, we move to different places, we develop technology and innovation.”

Pompeo also suggested that the risks of climate change wouldn’t be so bad anyway.

“If waters rise — I was just in the Netherlands, all below sea level, right?” Pompeo said. “Living a wonderful, thriving economic situation.”

“The world will be successful. I’m convinced,” he continued. “We will figure out responses to this that address these issues in important and fundamental ways.”

In May, Pompeo praised rising sea levels caused by climate change as a boon for trade opportunities.

“Steady reductions in sea ice are opening new passageways and new opportunities for trade,” Pompeo said during a speech at an international summit on environmental protection. “This could potentially slash the time it takes to travel between Asia and the West by as much as 20 days.”

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  1. But not to the United States – we’re full already. Try China, maybe, or India - they’ve got lots of room.

  2. How did this religious pimp get to be this stupid. Churches openly disregarding the law on preaching politics.

    Get these people about of my fucking country so I can come back. Good God.

  3. Old people getting hit by buses stretches out the time of eventual insolvency of the Social Security system.

    Wow. It’s a game we can all play!

  4. The Johnson family is scouting about for locations they can move their Missouri wheat fields to.

  5. Everything Trump Touches Dies

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