One of Radford’s area of focus is climate change. The condition of the world’s climate has been deteriorating drastically over the past few years due to the high levels of burning of fossil fuels for energy generation, deforestation, carbon emissions and the false promotion of nuclear energy.

Interestingly, on his first day of work at Greenpeace in 2009, he led his colleagues to scale a crane across from the State Department and hung a banner with words saying that the Earth is “Too Big to Fail”. This happened right outside a gathering which President Obama was having climate talks under the Major Economies Forum (MEF).

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“Too Big to Fail” in this case implies that the failure of today’s interconnected corporations will harm the economy and thus the problems faced by them with regards to investment in cleaner energy should be supported by the government through proper funding. According to Radford, he says that

“If the United States doesn’t take action that matches its responsibility, it’s unlikely other countries will meet theirs: China will continue to build new, very dirty coal fired power plants, and tropical countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and the Congo will continue to allow giant agricultural interests to burn down their forests. And the climate will rapidly careen out of control.”

The process of which can be seen from the video attached below.

It is then noted that President Barrack Obama has addressed this issue in the Climate Action Plan which was announced during Climate Summit in 2013. The plan proposes to prepare America for the possible impacts of climate change and leading international efforts to address global climate changes.

There will be works to increase resilience and support local preparedness, plans to protect natural land and water resources, and setting aside a budget of USD$2.7 billion to aid in understanding of the climate-change impacts. More importantly, America will be working with other countries to take action in addressing the global climate by expanding both bilateral and multilateral cooperation with major economies (17 other countries), plans to expand clean energy use, reduce consumption of fossil fuels, and reduce emissions from deforestation.