Clinton calls climate change biggest threat to civilization

DAVOS. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Saturday that climate change was the most pressing threat to civilization.

Clinton, who was president from 1993-2001, said the issue was of paramount concern.

It "has the power to end the march of civilization as we know it," and could render everything else "irrelevant," Clinton said while he was being interviewed at the World Economic Forum by its founder, Klaus Schwab, AP reported. V.A.