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Buttigieg: Using a Straw or Eating a Burger Means You Are ‘Part of The Problem’ Compares climate change to the Great Depression, World War II Graham Piro - SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 12:15 PM
South Bend mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (D.) said during an appearance on CNN's New Day Thursday morning that people who eat hamburgers or use plastic straws are "part of the problem."
The presidential hopeful discussed Wednesday night's climate town hall, which saw 10 Democratic candidates advocate for a variety of ways to combat climate change.
"I think that it makes a lot of people feel very helpless. Because yes, we can all do away with our plastic straws—and I haven't drank out of a straw for the past six months because I'm so worried about what's happening in the ocean—but people feel helpless when it's something that existential," said CNN host Alisyn Camerota. "So what do you do about that?"
"Right, and that's one of the things: I think the downside to us facing just how colossal of a challenge this is, is it can feel paralyzing," Buttigieg responded.
"But we can rise to meet this and be proud of it. That's part of what my climate plan is about. It's not only about all of the things we've got to do technologically and with regulation and so on. It's about summoning the energies of this country to do something unbelievably hard."
"If you look at the moments when this country rose to a major challenge, overcoming the Great Depression, winning World War II, going to the moon, it required something out of all of us. And I think we could be standing taller," he continued.
"See, right now we're in a mode where we're thinking of it mostly through the perspective of guilt, from using a straw to eating a burger. Am I part of the problem? In a certain way, yes. But the most exciting thing is that we can all be part of the solution."
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Warren Blames Fossil Fuel Industry for Distracting Voters With Hamburgers, Straws 'This is exactly what the fossil fuel industry hopes we are all talking about' Cameron Cawthorne - SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 9:25 AM
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) blamed the fossil fuel industry for distracting voters with hamburgers and straws during Wednesday's CNN climate town hall.
Moderator Chris Cuomo asked Warren whether the government should be in the business of telling consumers what light bulbs they can buy, prompting Warren to respond, "Oh, come on. Give me a break."
"Is that a yes?" Cuomo asked.
"No. Look, there are a lot of ways that we try to change our energy consumption and our pollution and God bless all of those ways," Warren said. "Some of it is with light bulbs. Some of it is on straws. Some of it is on cheeseburgers, right? There are a lot of different pieces to this and I get it that people are trying to find the part that they can work on and what they can do and I'm in favor of that."
She then appeared visibly annoyed while attacking the fossil fuel industry, saying, "This is exactly what the fossil fuel industry hopes we are all talking about."
"That's what they want us to talk about. This is your problem. They want to be able to stir up a lot of controversy around the lightbulbs, around your straws, and around your cheeseburgers," Warren said. "When 70 percent of the pollution of the carbon that we are throwing into the air comes from three industries and we can set our targets and say by 2028, 2030, and 2035 no more. Think about that."
Warren accused the fossil fuel industry of "corruption" and then said corporations are using PR firms to push out distractions so everyone can have "fun with it." She said as a result people aren't paying attention to who is still "making the big bucks."
Warren wasn't the only 2020 presidential candidate who discussed meat and straws during CNN's marathon of climate town halls. Earlier in the night, Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) was asked if she supports banning plastic straws.
"I think we should. Yes," Harris responded.
Harris also said she would like to see the government create "incentives" for Americans to eat less meat and "encourage moderation."
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‘Eat Less Meat’: 2020 Democrats Mull Changing Laws on Meat Consumption to Fight Climate Change
Madison Summers September 5, 2019, 12:39 pm
Several of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders took to the stage of Thursday night to lay out their plan to address climate change, and in doing so, some of them mulled ideas of changing laws surrounding meat consumption.
During Thursday’s climate change town hall hosted by CNN, 2020 Democratic hopeful Kamala Harris — who consistently polls at the fourth spot among the others — was asked by an audience member if she supports changing “dietary guidelines to reduce the consumption of red meat in light of the impact of climate change.”
After first making it clear that “we have a problem in America,” Harris responded, “The answer is yes.”
“The balance that we have to strike here, frankly, is about what government can and should do around creating incentives and then banning certain behaviors,” she said.
Asked again, if elected, if she’d back “changing the dietary guidelines,” the Democratic senator said she would, in regards to red meat consumption.
Asked if the American people should change their eating habits, 2020 Democratic primary contender Andrew Yang pointed to a U.N. study that revealed: “We’re going to be okay if the vast majority of the world goes vegetarian immediately.”
Yang — who consistently polls at the sixth spot — claimed that it was good for Americans and the environment’s health if they “eat less meat.” He added:
“So I think it would be healthy on an individual and societal level to move in that direction. But again this is a country where there is a lot of individual autonomy and so you can’t force people’s eating choices on them. All do you know is try to shape our system so that over time we evolve in a productive way.”
The two Democratic candidates are among others who have tossed their support behind the Green New Deal laid out initially by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to combat climate change, as IJR News reported.
They use the disaster of hurricane Dorian to push their fear mongering political agenda of climate change, which they suspiciously changed from calling it global warming ..There have been hurricanes since the earth existed ..now their idiotic policies will somehow thwart them in the future if a democrat is elected and the green new deal is implemented
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Subject: Re: 2020 Climate Hysteria Sat Sep 07, 2019 5:41 am
CNN's climate crisis town hall By Meg Wagner, Dan Merica, Gregory Krieg and Eric Bradner, CNN Updated 3:25 AM ET, Thu September 5, 2019
Not the first article I've read on this ... At first I figured the idea of eating people was for the lack of food in the future they're predicting ..somebody dies and quick get'em to a fridge to store for meals ..but this article seems to imply that it's more to reduce the population ..So obviously the idea is to kill people for food and not to feed off them after they die from natural causes, an accident or whatever
I wonder who they imagine would be the ones to chose who would eat and who would be eaten ..I suppose it would be the left wingnuts since it's their brainstorm ...It's all about climate change ..saving the world ..well, some of it anyway ..by killing and eating those they don't deem worthy of living other than to serve as a food source for them ...kinda like the cattle they want us to stop eating
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