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| 'Do We Want the Earth to Become Like Venus?': Putin Calls for Action on Climate Change
via RT: Vladimir Putin has called on the people of the world to come together and "tend to our planet" for future generations. The Russian President also warned that "unrestrained and unlimited consumption" will have to abandoned. Putin was speaking on Thursday to the Valdai Club, a Russian discussion forum attended by influential politicians, academics and business leaders, and visited yearly by the president. In recent years, the annual meeting has been held in Sochi, but this year it took place online. "Tensions have reached a critical point. We can see this in climate change," the Russian president said. "This problem calls for practical action and much more attention on our part. It has long stopped being the domain of abstract scientific interests but now concerns nearly every inhabitant of the planet Earth. Russia is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of global warming, as 65 percent of the country's territory is made up of permafrost. Any ecological change will have