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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Ben Jealous

If combating global warming is the goal, the oil and gas industries have too much power at UN conference

John Kerry (third from left), the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, attends the formal opening of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Thursday in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Handout/Getty)

Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

Those of us with history in the Civil Rights Movement know that taking on entrenched power and changing the status quo requires dogged tenacity and seizing key moments to break down barriers.

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