Jeff Merkley actually said...
Oh, this just puts an exclamation point on it all. We have seen the snowpack in the cascades just shrinking year after year, the fire season growing. We have fires that start in March, we have ones that come in November. In California, it's a year-round now. It's affecting the farming, the fishing, the forestry, so this is not an urban issue versus rural. This is like attacking the foundations of the real economy. It's affecting the quality of life of the urban world. We've got to all team up together, put all party considerations aside, and really have an incredibly robust effort to pivot next year in 2021 have a massive national effort to take on climate and then put America back in the leadership of the world and bringing the rest of the world forward. Otherwise, the whole planet is a tragedy of the commons. Everybody will suffer and everyone will wonder why the hell people didn't act. We have to act.
09/11/2020