'What the scientific community is telling us now, is that the Earth is screaming at us,' said GovInslee. 'We need to stop using fossil fuels. That is the only solution to this massive assault on humanity.'
Meanwhile, many Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates—including former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—are pushingKyle Jones of the Center for Policy Advocacy at the Natural Resources Defense Councilearlier this week that legislation marked up by the GOP-controlled U.S. House Appropriations Committee"reads like a 'how-to' manual for destroying the planet.
Raddatz asked how to convince people to care given that there are"candidates out there like Donald Trump, who mock the idea of climate change, and there are a vast number of Americans who ignore it, don't care about it, or don't believe it." Inslee insisted that"we can't wait for Donald Trump to figure this out. We don't have time to mess around to wait for this knucklehead to figure this out. We just got to make sure he's not in office. And the way we do this is vote against climate deniers."
"Vote against people who refuse to assist this moral and economic crisis that we have," he advised."You can't wait for these folks, you've just got to make sure they're not in office where they can do damage. Let them go off and play golf. We'll solve this problem. It's a solvable problem if we work together."
"And people are coming around to this very, very rapidly because their homes are burning down. They're choking on smoke from the Canadian fires," he said."Whenwants to go swimming, he can't because the water is like a sauna, like a hot tub off his beaches. We've just got to make sure those folks are not in office. We don't have the luxury of allowing these people to destroy the planet."Our work is licensed under Creative Commons .
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