 So the issue of climate change came up at the vice presidential debate and let me just say first of all I'm thankful that this topic was even discussed It's nice to see it come up because it's it's kind of important to say the least Having said that though, this was not a great portion I think that Kamala Harris walked into some right-wing traps that Mike Pence set So, you know, he was trying to press her on her support for the Green New Deal being a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal and she kind of tried to, you know, brush that aside and then he tried to claim that Joe Biden supports a ban on fracking And then she you know looked into the camera and said Joe Biden does not support a ban on fracking and listen Politics one-on-one is you do not run away from what's popular and I think AFC made a really great point about this on Twitter She said, you know, even though the Green New Deal has been lied about repeatedly with people saying that it's going to Amount to a ban on air travel and cows literally conservatives have said this. It's still incredibly popular So you don't run away from a popular policy. You don't Now when it comes to, you know fracking You should just be realistic and say listen our our position on this is that we you know We're going to reduce fracking We won't issue out as many permits for fracking But the goal ultimately is to get off of our dependence on fossil fuels Like she kind of instinctively ran away from the good policy, which is never a good look But I don't want a heart boy on Kamala Harris's response because even though I was disappointed ultimately with her Not entirely but in some portions Mike Pence shit the bed on this. He shit the bed Because he couldn't even admit That climate change is real He would not admit that climate change is real and it's man-made And in 2020 if you cannot admit to man-made climate change Which is a fact You are not a serious person. So this came up watch this exchange This was infuriating and I wanted to slam my head against the desk watching this Do you believe as the scientific community has concluded that man-made climate change has made wildfires bigger Hotter and more deadly and have made hurricanes wetter slower and more damaging you have two minutes uninterrupted Thank You Susan Well first I'm very proud of our record on the environment and on conservation According to all of the best estimates are Our air and land are cleaner than any time ever recorded and our water is among the cleanest in the world And just a little while ago the president signed the outdoors Act is the largest investment in our public lands and public parks In a hundred years So President Trump has made a commitment to conservation into the environment now with regard to climate change The climate is changing The issue is What's the cause and what do we do about it? President Trump has made it clear that we're going to continue to listen to the science What exactly would be the stance of a Biden Harris administration? Toward the Green New Deal you have two minutes uninterrupted North so first of all I will repeat and the American people know That Joe Biden will not ban fracking. That is a fact That is a fact. I Will repeat that Joe Biden has been very clear that he thinks about Growing jobs, which is why he will not increase taxes for anyone who makes less than four hundred thousand dollars a year Joe Biden's economic plan Moody's which is a reputable Wall Street firm has said will create seven million more jobs than Donald Trump's and Part of those jobs that will be created by Joe Biden are going to be about clean energy and renewable energy because you see Joe Understands that the west coast of our country is burning including my home state of California Joe sees what is happening on the Gulf States, which are being battered by storms Joe has seen and talked with the farmers in Iowa whose entire crops have been destroyed because of floods And so Joe believes again in science I'll tell you something Susan I served when I first got to the Senate on the committee that's responsible for the environment Do you know this administration? Took the word science off the website and Then took the phrase climate change off the website this we have seen a pattern with this administration Which is they don't believe in science and Joe's plan is about saying we're gonna deal with it But we're also gonna create jobs Donald Trump when asked about the wildfires in California And and the question was you know the science is telling us this you know what Donald Trump said science doesn't know So let's talk about who is prepared to lead our country over the course of the next four years on What is an existential threat to us as human beings Joe is about saying we're gonna invest that in renewable energy We're it's gonna be about the creation of millions of jobs. We will achieve net zero emissions by 2050 carbon neutral by 2035 Joe has a plan This has been allowed to talk from the Trump administration and really it has been to go backward instead of forward We will also re-enter the climate agreement with pride Senator Harris just said that climate change is an existential threat Vice president Pence. Do you believe that climate change poses an existential threat? As I said Susan the climate is changing will follow the science but once again senator Harris is Denying the fact that they're gonna raise taxes. He was asked whether or not he believes in climate change. He says the climate is changing Now if you aren't savvy, I could see how you might interpret that as oh, okay So he does believe in climate change. No, that's double-speak What he's admitting here is or are not admitting here is that the climate is changing because of human beings So usually when conservatives you've used this talking point which comes from the fossil fuel industry mind you What they're saying is look climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon The climate is always in a state of flux. It's constantly changing and that's technically true But what we're talking about with regard to climate change specifically anthropogenic climate change is the rate At which the climate is changing. It is not natural for our climate to change this fast That's the issue here and I've never seen a moderator on a debate stage. Call this out Yes, the climate is changing sure you admit that but do you admit that it's changing at a faster rate because of human activity and You know he gets off scot-free essentially because he says well the climate is changing That doesn't mean that he believes in climate change because if you don't believe that climate change is man-made Functionally you are a climate denier. That's a fact because the whole issue is Whether or not it's man-made to them because if they can argue that it's not man-made then the implication is well If it's not man-made then there's nothing man can do about it. It's just natural So we just keep polluting we keep fracking, you know We keep destroying the environment in order to boost the economy and you know, it's it's dirty It's it's a deceptive trick, but that's what conservatives do now Kamala Harris brought up how she believes it is an existential threat and she's correct on this Mike pencils asked do you believe climate change is an existential threat? What is his answer the climate's always changing? So he wouldn't say that it's an existential threat So on a national debate stage He just tacitly admitted that he is a climate change denier in the year 2020 This is not a debatable topic anymore We are past the days Where you know, it's acceptable and appropriate for the media to try to be neutral here and say well, you know Some Republicans say climate change isn't real Democrats say it is real No It's real because the scientists say it's real. I don't give a shit What fossil fuel funded Republican politicians say climate change is real and it is an existential threat and Because there's so much evidence. That's why Republicans have had to constantly move the goalpost They would just outright deny Climate change altogether by saying the climate isn't even changing. In fact, it's not getting warmer. It's getting cooler Trump in fact still says that sometimes But they keep saying okay, well climate change is real, but it's not man-made so they keep moving closer and closer to Because they don't want to take action So this was egregious. I think that you know, this doesn't really need much commentary I don't have to say anything because the clip speaks for itself. The vice president is a climate change denier And I get that we're accustomed to this and it's something that you know It's not surprising because the Republican Party is a far-right death cult But we should never normalize this we should never accept it because it's not acceptable It's indefensible. If you deny climate change, you are not qualified to be anywhere in government The humanist report is fake news Mike only cares about crazy Bernie and his wacky socialist ideas Sad verse sad. I'm unsubscribing