ELECTION ISSUE
Status:Open
Where Do Candidates Stand on Climate Change?
LOW THREATURGENT ACTION
Positions
Cornel West“The state of emergency [around climate change] is beyond really an emergency. It’s a catastrophe capital C."
Chase Oliver"Want to fight climate change? Cut Military Industrial Complex spending."
Tim Walz“When I hear people say, ‘You're moving too fast,’ we can't move too fast when it comes to addressing climate change.”
Donald Trump“The biggest threat is not global warming, where the ocean is going to rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years … and you’ll have more oceanfront property.”
Tim Walz"[T]he solution for us is to continue to move forward, that climate change is real."Oct 02, 2024
Kamala Harris"The clock is no longer just ticking, it is banging."
Kamala Harris"There’s no question, I’m in favor of banning fracking."
Jill Stein"We need to act now so that our children and future generations can not only survive, but thrive."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.“I believe that climate is existential, but I don’t insist other people believe that.”
J.D. Vance"I don’t think there is [a climate crisis]."
Kamala Harris"The impact of the climate crisis is unmistakable, and without any question in my mind, poses an existential threat to the entire planet."
J.D. Vance"[I]f you really want to make the environment cleaner, you've got to invest in more energy production."Oct 02, 2024
Kamala Harris“I will not ban fracking."
Donald Trump"We should be focused on magnificently clean and healthy air and not distracted by the expensive hoax that is global warming!"
J.D. Vance"We, of course, have a climate problem in our society."
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