Climate Crisis

Bernie Sanders strongly believes climate change is real, catastrophic, and largely caused by human activities. He believes only aggressive immediate action can offset its future impacts. He often refers to it as the “great planetary crisis we now face”. The climate crisis is not only the single greatest challenge facing our country; it is also our single greatest opportunity to build a more just and equitable future, but we must act immediately. Bernie is one of the fiercest fighters for recognition of, adaptation to, and mitigation of climate change. Bernie has spent hundreds of hours vigorously debating and combating climate skeptics in Washington. He has long been unsettled by some of his colleagues’ denial of the overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is real and caused by human activity. Furthermore, he strongly believes the influence of lobbying is to blame for much of the climate change skepticism in Washington. Bernie has a long record of supporting policies to combat climate change. He knows that we have to act aggressively to adequately combat the current climate crisis. Bernie Sanders will declare a climate emergency. There is a climate emergency which demands a massive-scale mobilization to halt, reverse, and address its consequences and causes. Bernie will declare a national emergency on climate change and take immediate, large-scale action to reverse its effects. This is an existential threat and we will do whatever it takes to confront it. Bernie is putting his money where his mouth is. His campaign has pledged to offset his campaign’s carbon emissions. The campaign will be funding renewable energy initiatives to compensate for carbon emissions from planes and cars used to travel during the campaign. Bernie has long been a proponent of offsetting carbon emissions. Now he’s leading by example.
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