Kamala Harris said in Thursday night’s Democratic debate that President Trump’s inaction on climate change and skepticism of science is a danger to the world.
Harris, a senator from California, said climate change “represents an existential threat to us” and is a “crisis.”
“The fact we have a president who has embraced science fiction over science fact will be to our collective peril,” she said.
Harris then declared Trump to be the “greatest national security threat to the United States,” and suggested the president’s position on climate change is a partial reason why because “he denies the science” behind it. Harris also reiterated her support for the “Green New Deal,” a progressive platform to transition the U.S. off fossil fuels, while providing a federal job guarantee and universal healthcare.
Trump has called climate change a “hoax” and mocked the science behind it. His administration has carried out an aggressive deregulatory agenda of Obama-era regulations intended to limit carbon emissions that cause climate change.
