Tony Blair urges US action on climate change | World news | guardian.co.uk

However, climate change is a tougher sell for American workers, Jennifer Granholm, the governor of Michigan said. Her state, home of America's crumbling auto industry, has the highest unemployment in the country.

"The only thing to get this passed in the United States is for real people to understand what this means for them," she said. "They don't care so much about carbon emissions or sequestration of gases, they just want to know: 'does this mean that there is a job for me'?"

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