Political Quotes

“Madam President, for more than 100 years, scientists have shown that burning fossil fuels creates carbon pollution that heats up and builds up in our atmosphere. It just doesn't go away. It just keeps building up more and more and more. And for more than 100 years, we kept on burning fossil fuels anyway. In fact, we have given major--as a Congress--major, permanent tax benefits for the past 100 years to the fossil fuel industry. Now we are experiencing the full force and the huge cost of that choice, and it is growing even faster than many predicted. This week, I published a report that outlined how extreme weather events are becoming more destructive, more dangerous, and more expensive, thanks to the climate crisis. Last year, the U.S. Senate set an awful record. We had 22 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in one year--the most ever. In total, these 22 disasters cost the Nation almost $100 billion in damages, and 262 Americans lost their lives in severe storms and heat waves and wildfires. 2020 may have set a record, but, unfortunately, it is a record that is going to be broken probably this year. Over the past 5 years, American taxpayers have spent an average of $126 billion a year in damages due to these disasters. And the total cost of these disasters over the last 15 years tops $1 trillion, and growing every single day, every single year.…”