If you watch nothing else today, watch @AOC contrast the costs of climate catastrophe with the benefits of bold action.
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Climate Power
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Climate Power
@ClimatePower
Fighting for bold climate action, exposing Big Oil’s greed, and holding polluters accountable⚡️
Joined April 2009
- .@AOC: "We cannot allow the climate crisis to become a catastrophe ... Some of us are actually going to have to live on this planet in 50 years ... This is real life. This is serious. And we need to govern like it."
00:00 - .@ColinAllredTX’s closing argument: “You’re not actually there when people need you. Like when the lights went out. When 30 million Texans were relying on a senator to spring into action. He went to Cancún. That’s who [Ted Cruz] is.”
00:00 - Today, @POTUS is visiting the aftermath of a climate disaster in KY that killed 37 people. Yesterday, @LeaderMcConnell voted against the largest climate investment in US history.
- The largest city in the US is currently underwater. Make no mistake, this is climate change.
- EU will only make trade deals with nations that ratify Paris climate agreement thinkprogress.org/eu-paris-us-de…
- "I don’t think big oil companies need a handout from the federal government. We are going to get rid of the $40 billion fossil fuel subsidies and invest in clean energy." —@JoeBiden on building our economy back better with good-paying, union jobs that will tackle climate change
00:00 - "What Democrats should prioritize is not 'process'...but are we passing a deal that helps working people the most...that makes the most jobs...that brings down the most climate emissions?" @AOC on what an infrastructure package should deliver — WATCH:
00:00 - NEW: We have a message for Donald Trump and his entire science-denying administration. And we're delivering it at their favorite, corrupt gathering spot in DC—the Trump International Hotel.
- "I need you to understand that our inequality crisis is intertwined with the climate crisis. If we don't work on both, we will succeed at neither." @ayanaeliza has a message for the climate movement: There is no climate justice without racial justice. #BlackLivesMatter
00:00 - .@SenSanders to the @SenateGOP's climate deniers: "News flash: Climate change is real and the United States and other countries have got to address it." 🗣Say it louder for the people in the back🗣
- "Enough is enough. The people marching in the streets are telling you enough is enough. Be the leaders that this country, this world, needs. Do the right thing." —Philonise Floyd on his brother, George, to members of Congress #BlackLivesMatter
00:00 - NEW: @SenSchumer raises CLIMATE at the top of his remarks as new committee chairs are seated. "As the Biden administration prepares a whole-of-government approach to combating climate change, the Democratic Majority will pursue a whole-of-Senate approach as well."
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