Climate change is emerging as one of the 2020 election cycle’s most pressing issues.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, in unveiling phase three of his Democratic presidential candidacy's climate agenda, has an eye cast towards the global stage - and is looking to reimagine American foreign policy through the lens of combating climate change.
A recent poll conducted by Harvard Institute of Politics of young people, ages 18 to 29, found a substantial 14-point increase from the same poll they conducted in 2015 in those who said they believed"government should do more to curb climate change, even at the expense of economic growth." Inslee squarely targeted President Trump for his"cowardly path of ignorance," and"foreign policy based on isolationism and xenophobia," and challenging America to lead by example on the vanguard of climate science.
“I have to express disappointment that the Vice President's proposals really lack teeth, they lack the ambition that is necessary to defeat the climate crisis,” Inslee said reacting to Biden’s rollout, contrasting Biden’s plan with his own. It rejects the notion of “freedom gas” as put forth by the Trump Administration - promoting U.S. fossil fuels abroad - as well as forging more collaboration with sustainable land use, ocean conservation and clean air - addressing the fluidity of what knows no border lines: water, and the air we breathe.
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