Joe Biden has selected climate activist and Green New Deal devotee Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. (See: Biden picks California Senator Kamala Harris as VP nominee) Harris has been a staunch advocate for climate change and a big booster of the Green New Deal.
In 2019, Harris promoted the Green New Deal as a way “we can change human behaviors.”
“It is a fact that we can change human behaviors without much change to our lifestyle and we can save the future generations of our country and this world,” Harris said.
Harris has also injected identity politics into the climate debate. See: Kamala Harris, Ocasio-Cortez Push ‘Climate Equity Act’ To Be Scored Based On How Much They Impact Black People – Sen. Kamala Harris of California and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York are teaming up on a proposal requiring lawmakers who introduce climate bills to consider the impact such legislation will have on black people and poor communities.
Former Vice President Al Gore is happy with the pick of Harris for VP. Biden “has selected an extraordinary running mate in Kamala Harris. Kamala has made climate and environmental justice a top priority in her career in public service.,” Gore wrote.
.@JoeBiden has selected an extraordinary running mate in @kamalaharris! Kamala has made climate and environmental justice a top priority in her career in public service, and I know she will continue to be a strong advocate in the White House. #BidenHarris2020
— Al Gore (@algore) August 11, 2020
FLASHBACK: Sen Kamala Harris Supported Eliminating Senate Filibuster To Pass Green New Deal – California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris said in 2019 that she would consider ending the Senate filibuster as president if Republican lawmakers refused to embrace legislation addressing what she and other Democrats believe is a climate crisis…“If they fail to act, as president of the United States, I am prepared to get rid of the filibuster to pass a Green New Deal,” Harris said, referring to potential Republican opposition to climate legislation. Her remarks were the first time Harris expressed support for ending the filibuster, a procedural requirement that any legislation get 60 votes to end the Senate’s unlimited debate.
Gore said in a tweet that Kamala Harris “has made climate and environmental justice a top priority” in her political career, and he said she’d be a “strong advocate in the White House.”
The Sierra Club’s Michael Brune called Harris “a true leader who recognizes that climate action does not exist without climate justice. The Biden Harris 2020 is the strongest environmental ticket ever.”
So this isn't about the science anymore? https://t.co/LNsCRSatkY
— Mike Bastasch (@MikeBastasch) August 11, 2020
Related Sen. Harris on climate change:
Kamala Harris: Fossil Fuel Workers Can ‘Transition’ To Installing Wind Turbines And Solar Panels
Kamala Harris laughs about paper straws quickly collapsing, but still wants to ban plastic straws
Climate change is an imminent threat to our planet unless we correct course. It’s within our power to do so. Now is the time. pic.twitter.com/q1mToVv6GE
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 18, 2019
2019: How Kamala Harris’s $10 trillion plan would address climate change – California Sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday released her plan for addressing climate change, calling for $10 trillion in public and private funding to create a carbon-neutral economy and invoking her past as a prosecutor to target companies that are driving greenhouse gas emissions. “As president, I will hold polluters accountable for the damage they inflict upon our environment and set us on a path to a 100 percent clean economy that creates millions of good-paying jobs,” Harris said in a statement. “This crisis demands urgency and boldness, and as president, I will act.”
Steve Milloy: “None of what the Joe Biden green team has in store will improve the environment; it will only make your life poorer and harder.”
“A green push is a political agenda. It’s not about controlling the climate. It’s about controlling you. You can see this for yourself in the prescriptive lifestyle climate activists demand: Don’t eat meat. You don’t need a car. Avoid air conditioning. Wash in cold water. Dry your clothes on a clothesline. As Al Gore asked at the end of his 2007 movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” “Are you ready to change the way you live?” While you’re changing the way you live, China, India, and soon Africa will be emitting greenhouse gases like there’s no tomorrow to raise their national standards of living.”
“A Biden administration would move to ban fracking, the oil production technology that has liberated Americans and our gas prices from the shackles of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, cartel. In no time, American drivers would be facing European-style gas prices and sweating every time Iran, Russia, or Saudi Arabia moved to threaten the global oil supply.”
The New York Times recently ran an opinion column commanding readers to “Stop Using Toilet Paper.” It advocated for using something reusable or upgrading your toilet so it shoots streams of targeted water. It seems nothing environmental extremists do can be too intrusive.
