“Understand, this is exactly what the fossil-fuel industry hopes we’re all talking about,” said Elizabeth Warren during CNN’s seven-hour climate town hall
Elizabeth Warren. Photo: Paras Griffin/WireImage The U.N. has called climate change the “defining issue of our time,” one that requires “unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” And yet the U.S. conversation on confronting the crisis has spent a disproportionate amount of time on … whether to ban plastic straws. So it was refreshing to see Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren refuse to engage with that question at all during a town hall earlier this week.
“Oh, come on, give me a break,” she said in what was one of the more electrifying moments of the town hall. Though she understands and admires consumers’ efforts to “find the part that they can work on and what can they do,” she said that putting the onus on the individual is inadequate.
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