Excerpt of Jay Inslee’s, Governor of Washington, article that appears on the Huffington Post to bring awareness on climate change.
As the hurricanes and forest fires
rage, we know there are no Republicans or Democrats in lifeboats, only
survivors. Where are climate change deniers supposed to go?
Climate
change deniers are running out of places to hide ― places to hide from
hurricanes, places to hide from forest fires, and places to hide from
scientific truth. Yet this did not stop Donald Trump’s administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, from taking time to
proclaim: “To have any kind of focus on the cause and effect of the storm
vs. helping people, or actually facing the effect of the storm, is
misplaced.”
For
the Trump administration, talking about climate change is always
“misplaced.” The fact is that climate change is altering our climate, our
weather and our future. These changes leave us precious little time in the
future when climate change is not inflicting pain on someone, somewhere.
The current administration never wants to
address either the science, or the public health, or the economics of climate
change. They can run, but they cannot hide from Mother Nature.
Now is the time for a national commitment,
when the winds are blowing and fires are burning. What we’re starting to
see is beyond the normal bounds of mere weather changes.
The
floods and fires are not a time just for sorrow; they must be a time for
action. We must seize this moment to help the victims, and we must seize
this moment to take action on climate change.
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