"the planet, this pale blue dot, belongs to us and is ours to manage, and we can't retreat from that responsibility to manage it wisely."
"Protecting and restoring our lands and our waterways and our natural spaces can provide a tremendous opportunity to capture and store significant amounts of carbon."
"Okay. So to give Americans and the world the best chance of avoiding the worst consequences of the climate crisis..."
"We have to explore every opportunity we have to keep carbon pollution out of the air and reduce climate risks."
"America's forests, grasslands, wetlands and agricultural lands can store more carbon."
"The time is right for us to make a significant investment in natural climate solutions."
"I co-chair the House Oceans Caucus and the Congressional Estuary Caucus, and I am working on legislation to strengthen, restore, and protect our wetlands, to store blue carbon."
"Every 30 seconds our country loses a natural area the size of a football field to human development."
"Nature can help solve other climate change challenges as well."
"I think we tend to talk too often about government solutions, which are important--and I agree with you, it is critical--but our climate crisis is, in the first instance, a market failure."
"But the earth is warming, the Arctic carbon deep freeze is breaking, and that is one of the reasons that we have all got to work together to follow the science and develop bipartisan climate solutions..."