U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt used to have a Map Room in the White House to manage World War II. If she’s elected president, Hillary Clinton intends to equip the White House with a similar “situation room” just for climate change. Clinton plans to use a technologically sophisticated Climate Map Room as an example of planning for resilience—the capacity of the country to withstand and adapt to climate-change effects.
Hillary Clinton plans to have a ‘Climate Map Room’ In The White House
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