It’s Time For a Climate Change Debate.
We are facing an existential threat. It’s time to act like it.
Thanks largely to organizations like the Sunrise Movement, along with Washington Governor and former Presidential candidate Jay Inslee, the Democratic National Committee has faced incredibly intense pressure throughout this election primary season to hold a debate centered entirely around the topic of climate change. Nevertheless, in spite of the continued and ever growing pressure to have this debate, the DNC recently voted against it.
As the DNC votes against this debate, the Amazon burns, the Coral Reef continues to die, the icebergs across the globe continue to melt at record breaking speeds. Those opposed to the debate argue that if this debate would have been allowed to happen, a debate for criminal justice reform, women’s rights, immigration, etc. would have to be allowed. They argue that it sets a disruptive precedent, and that candidates need to be able to juggle a multitude if issues at once in order to prove themselves worthy of the Presidency.
For one thing, I wouldn’t be opposed to a scenario in which each of the most important issues that voters have chosen get their own debate. Especially in such a crowded field of candidates, voters deserve to know the candidates they are expected to vote for, and candidates…
