Cedric Richmond: “This threat is real, and it is personal.”

We can’t afford not to address climate change.

We’re going to keep our head down. We’re going to keep focused on the American people, not politicians, and we’re going to deliver for the American people.

We have to communicate that under President Biden, we reduce Black child poverty by 50 percent, that Black unemployment is the all-time low, Black business startup is an all-time high, Black wealth is up 60 percent.

We want to invest in changing and addressing climate change, because we know these storms are getting stronger and more frequent, and the devastation is getting worse.