June Democratic candidates debate in Miami FL: on Energy & Oil
Bernie Sanders:
Scientists say "12 years before damage is irreversible"
Scientists tell us we have 12 years before there is irreparable damage to this planet. This is a global issue. What the president should do is not deny the reality of climate change but tell the rest of the world that, instead of spending a trillion
and a half dollars on weapons of destruction, let us get together for the common enemy, and transform the world's energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. The future of the planet rests on us doing that.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
John Hickenlooper:
Institute wind & solar, as well as methane reductions
In Colorado, we're closing a couple of coal plants, replacing it with wind, solar and batteries and the monthly bills go down. We're building a network for electric vehicles. We are working with the oil and gas industry and we've
created the first methane regulations in the country.Methane is 25 times worse than CO2. We've got to recognize that only by bringing people together, businesses, nonprofits-- we will be doomed to failure.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Kamala Harris:
Climate crisis represents existential threat to our species
I don't call it climate change. It's a climate crisis. It represents an existential threat to us as a species. And the fact that we have a president who has embraced science fiction over science fact will be to our collective peril.
We must confront what is immediate and before us right now. That is why I support a Green New Deal. It is why I will re-enter us in the Paris Agreement, because we have to take these issues seriously.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Pete Buttigieg:
Pittsburgh Summit instead of Paris Summit
Rural America can be part of the solution instead of being told they're part of the problem. With the right kind of soil management and investments, rural America could be a huge part of how we get this done.
We've got to look to the leadership of those networks of mayors in cities from around the world. We should have a Pittsburgh summit where we bring them together, as well as rejoining the Paris [accords].
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Jun 27, 2019
Beto O`Rourke:
Unite to keep planet from warming another two degrees
You've got to bring everybody into the decisions and solutions. We're going to mobilize $5 trillion over the next 10 years. We're going to put farmers and ranchers in the driver's seat to make sure that we capture more carbon out of the air
and keep more of it in the soil, paying farmers for the environmental services that they want to provide. If all of us does all that we can, then we're going to be able to keep this planet from warming another 2 degrees Celsius.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
Elizabeth Warren:
Ten-fold increase in green research & green manufacturing
There's going to be a worldwide need for green technology, and we can be the ones to provide that. We need to go tenfold in our research and development on green energy going forward. Then we need to say any corporation can come and use that research.
They can make all kinds of products from it, but they have to be manufactured right here in the United States of America. Then we have to sell it around the world. We should have that 1.2 million manufacturing jobs here in America.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
Jay Inslee:
We need to address climate change for our grandchildren
[My] grandchildren, we love them all. When I was thinking about whether to run for president, I decided that on my last day on Earth,
I wanted to look them in the eye and tell them I did everything humanly possible to protect them from the ravages of the climate crisis.
I know to a moral certainty, if we do not have the next president who commits to this as the top priority, it won't get done.
I'm the only candidate who's made this commitment to make it the top priority. We can save ourselves. We can save our children. We can save our grandchildren. And we can save literally the life on this planet.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
Jay Inslee:
We're the first generation to feel sting of climate change
We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last that can do something it. Our towns are burning. Our fields are flooding. This is a crisis. We need to do what I've done in my state. My plan has been called the gold
standard of putting people to work. I am the only one who's saying this has to be the top priority of the United States, so that we can do what we've always done, lead the world and invent the future and put 8 million people to work.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
John Delaney:
Carbon pricing works; you just have to do it right
I introduced the only bipartisan carbon tax bill. All the economists agree that a carbon pricing mechanism works. You just have to do it right. You can't put a price on carbon, raise energy prices, and not give the money back to the American people.
My proposal gives a dividend back to the American people. It goes out one pocket, back in the other. I can get that passed my first year as president with a coalition of every Democrat in the Congress and the Republicans who live in coastal states.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
Tim Ryan:
Must reconnect with working class to address climate change
Q: How do we pay for climate mitigation?Tim Ryan: We have a perception problem with the Democratic Party. We are not connecting to the working class people in the industrial Midwest, to get those workers back on our side so we can say we're going to
build electric vehicles, we're going to build solar panels. All I'm saying is here, if we don't address that fundamental problem with our connection to workers--white, black, brown, gay, straight--working-class people none of this is going to get done.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (first night in Miami)
Jun 26, 2019
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