When it comes to climate matters, Vice President Kamala Harris has been playing a centrist on the campaign trail. However, while her campaign is now feigning support for fossil fuels, its recent hiring of Camila Thorndike as climate engagement director revealed Harris’s plans for climate policy are anything but reasonable.

Thorndike, a former staffer for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), fuels the narrative that climate anxiety is a legitimate reason to avoid having children and highlights a growing push among progressive activists to pit humans and the environment against one another. As she tries to reconcile Harris’s progressive climate policy with her campaign trail compromises, Thorndike has become proof that the campaign’s climate progressivism and climate realism can’t both be true.