Today is the day. Election Day 2020. If you haven’t voted already, get out and cast your ballot.
There is too much at stake not to vote.
Our government – president, senators and congress members – simply must heed the warnings of scientists about climate change. Finally, only in this last election season of 2020, did the cause of our rising temperatures and seas finally get airtime in presidential and vice presidential debates and in Democratic primary races.
Joe Biden’s proposal is the most ambitious response to climate change ever proposed by a major-party nominee for president. Donald Trump could tick off only one action – a trillion trees plan. And, no, Biden’s proposal is not the “green new deal.” Nor does it call for “banning” fossil fuels or fracking. If you heard it did, you heard Donald Trump’s and the GOP’s constant, repeated lies.
Biden has a real plan for fighting climate change with a $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure program to gradually move us from carbon emitting fossil fuels, including hydraulic fracking for oil or gas, to jobs-producing and clean alternative energies. What Biden said about fracking was that he would ban it “on federal property” – our parks and national monuments – and he would make the fracking industry clean up its outrageous methane leaks. Fixing climate change is not a fossil fuel switch we can just flip off – much as we may need it to be.