Current Events > DNC votes down climate debate

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dnc-rejects-climate-debate_n_5d5cb8f0e4b05f62fbd7067d?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

A panel of the Democratic National Committee on Thursday rejected a proposal to host a single-issue debate on the climate crisis.

At a party conference Thursday in San Francisco, the DNCs resolutions committee voted 17-8 against a resolution that has become a cause clbre for activists and for more than a dozen presidential contenders who felt the traditional debate format failed to adequately address the looming threat of catastrophe. The issue could resurface during the full committees general session on Saturday.

It was a predictable outcome. Top brass at the DNC opposed the climate debate from the get-go, fearing it could sow discord in the base and hamper the eventual nominee in the general election. CNN and MSNBC announced plans last month to host forums on climate change in September. DNC Chair Tom Perez affirmed the forums in a resolution introduced earlier this month, which some activists saw as setting the stage for voting down the climate debate.

Symone Sanders, a senior adviser of presidential candidate Joe Biden, was among those who urged the DNC on Thursday to vote down a climate debate, saying it would be dangerous territory in the middle of a Democratic primary process.

That contrasts with what Biden had earlier said during a campaign stop in Iowa this summer. The former vice president had endorsed having a climate debate, telling Greenpeace, Im all in.

The influential youth-led climate group Sunrise Movement, a driving force behind the climate debate push, filled the room where the vote took place with as many as 100 activists on Thursday.

We deserve a chance at a livable future, one Sunrise activist shouted after the vote. We deserve a climate debate.

The nonprofit vowed to hold protests over the next day intended to shame the DNC for voting down the measure. At the same time, it applauded the committees vote to advance a resolution reversing a ban on 2020 candidates participating alongside one another at climate forums not sanctioned by the DNC.

This partial victory shows the strength of the grassroots movement and the power of young people, Sunrise Movement spokesperson Sofie Karasek said in a statement. In the coming days and months, well keep fighting to make sure the DNC and Tom Perez treat the climate crisis like the emergency that it is, and give it the airtime and attention that it deserves.

Adding to the string was Democratic presidential candidate Jay Inslees departure from the 2020 race. The Washington governor, who pegged his entire candidacy to a sweeping climate plan, dropped out late Wednesday night as his low polling numbers disqualified from the next full debate in September.

Climate change was virtually ignored in the 2016 presidential election a symptom as much of the widespread denial of the scope of the threat as the lack of popular policy ideas to curb emissions. That changed over the past year.

In October 2018, the United Nations issued a dire report that projected warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) roughly half-a-degree hotter than average temperatures today and widely considered the brink of a safe climate unless global emissions are roughly halved in the next decade. The findings electrified the climate movement internationally.

In the United States, as Democrats celebrated a new majority in the House of Representatives after the November midterm elections, youth activists with Sunrise Movement occupied incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosis office, demanding the party make sweeping climate policy a priority. The protests fueled a nascent movement for a Green New Deal, an unprecedented plan to eliminate emissions and provide millions of high-wage jobs to workers in industries that need to be phased out.

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No surprise Bidens campaign was eager to kill this, nor that the DNC was: it wouldnt go well for their chosen candidate.

This is what people mean when they say the DNC is just a polished shit, compared to the GOP who doesn't try to hide their putrid stains.
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The DNC doesn't care about the issues. They want to hold their constituents hostage to the lie that they'll actually do something.
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This is why we need to vote. Change the DNC from the inside.

Bernie pulled the platform to the left last election and we can do it again.
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ZMythos posted...

This is why we need to vote. Change the DNC from the inside.

Bernie pulled the platform to the left last election and we can do it again.

And we wont stop until the people control the means of production, right comrades?!
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The platform threw him under the bus. He represented the change they feared. They did everything in their power to prop up a "safe" establishment candidates coming off a two term run of one of the best presidents in recent memory.

They can go fuck themselves. They can have their DNC. Nothing will change. The whole organization and their apologists needs to burn.
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A reminder that the only party is 3rd party.

Yikes
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Democrats: Global warming is the greatest threat to humanity but we dont wanna talk about it.

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DNC is not opposing the forums, so take what you can get
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