On Thursday, the world will mourn thousands of soldiers who gave their lives on D-Day, what many consider the beginning of the end of the “war to end all wars” that ultimately cost an estimated 85 million lives.
But Democrat presidential contender Elizabeth Warren is reminding folks that’s nothing compared the potential destruction of climate change, though thankfully she has a plan to avert the “environmental catastrophe bearing down on us.”
The Massachusetts senator made the comparison at a campaign stop in Detroit on Tuesday, as President Trump prepared to honor the fallen during an official trip to Europe this week.
“So I’m excited to be here to talk about this and I’ll tell you why,” Warren preached to a small group. “America’s faced huge challenges before. World War II. Put a man on the moon.
“This environmental catastrophe bearing down on us may be the biggest challenge yet,” she said. “But how do we beat it? How do we beat it?
“We do by what we’ve always done as Americans. We invest in science, in innovation, and in American workers. That’s how we’re going to do it,” Warren said, raising her fist into the air.
Essentially, Warren wants to spend $1.5 trillion to “clean up America” and fight climate change, which she alleged is “a threat to the very existence of every living thing on this planet,” according to The Detroit News.
The hyperbole comes amid a flurry of competing plans to combat climate change released by Democrat presidential candidates this week. Frontrunner and former vice president Joe Biden released a $1.7 trillion climate change proposal on Tuesday, while Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has made the issue the central plank of his campaign, which also stopped in Detroit for a “climate mission tour,” according to the news site.
During her speech at the Detroit nonprofit Focus: HOPE Tuesday, Warren made it clear she plans to collect more taxes to fund her expensive climate plans, though she claimed the money will come from the greedy businesses that are currently driving the country’s strong economy.
“Those giant corporations, they’re not loyal to America. They’re not loyal to American workers,” Warren barked. “They are loyal to one thing: Their own profits. Their profits and their shareholders.”
Michael Joyce, spokesman for the Republican National Committee, pointed out the obvious connection between the “giant corporations” Warren loves to hate and the millions of Americans they employ.
“Elizabeth Warren’s support of absurd plans like giving the government control of healthcare, jobs and education shows just how out of touch she really is with everyday Michiganders,” Joyce said. “She might have a plan, but that plan would kiss our roaring economy goodbye and pave the way for crippling taxes on all Michiganders.”
Regardless, Warren is tying her political fate to the environment with her three-part plan to vastly expand government control of and taxes on the country’s biggest employers, particularly those in the oil and gas industries.
And she’s hoping fear of the “environmental catastrophe bearing down on us” will be enough to motivate voters to put her plan ahead of their own best interests.
“We need to be all-in to fight this climate crisis,” Warren said. “All in.”
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