Gov. Jay Inslee signs 100% clean energy bill in Seattle, May 10, 2019. I was present.
ABC’s ‘This Week opened with a report on the extreme heat as a massive heat dome stretched from Coast to Coast.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your arms are burning. Your face is burning.
RADDATZ: Extreme temperatures shatter global records. Earth's 20 hottest day ever, all measured this month.
MAYOR REGINA ROMERO, MAYOR OF TUCSON, ARIZONA: It's tangible climate change in front of us.
MAYOR KATE GALLEGO, MAYOR OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA: We lose more Americans to heat than most other disasters combined.
RADDATZ: With no end in sight, how are communities handling the heat? We're live in the hot spots with Ginger Zee diving into the warming waters of Florida. Palm Springs Mayor Grace Elena Garner and Washington state Governor Jay Inslee.
ABC’s This Week featured a brief interview with Washington Governor Jay Inslee about the current Climate Crisis, and the upcoming elections’ effects on our ability to cope with this burgeoning crisis.
This Week Transcript
Martha Raddatz: ‘You heard John Kerry the Climate Czar say that every step foreword depends on not one country acting alone, but acting all together helping to push the rest of the world to do what we need to do to win this battle. That really isn’t happening. Just look at China.’
Gov. Jay Inslee: ‘Not yet’
Martha Raddatz: ‘But time is running out, the bottom is already here as you said.”
Jay Inslee: ‘Exactly’
Martha Raddatz: ‘So what do you do?
Jay Inslee: ‘Exactly’
Martha Raddatz: ‘So what do you do? How do you bring them all together? It’s one thing to do what your state is doing, what the nation is trying to do. But this is a world wide problem.’
Jay Inslee: ‘You lead. You tell your kids to lead, when you send them to summer camp. You say lead. The United States should be and is the leader in this effort. And people are coming along. We need to lead. And we need to lead not just no just from a moral standpoint, but from our self interest standpoint. We need to build these jobs here, and build these economies here. These battery companies that coming in throughout the Midwest. We are rebuilding the Rust Belt in the Midwest of the United States into the Silicon Belt, and the belt of new innovation. So this is a self interest to take action. And we’re certainly committed to it. And again if you want to be an economic leader follow Washington State. And what we’re doing, we’re building youn know the largest fuel cell in the world, powering the largest truck in the world. New kinds of batteries we’ve invented here.’
Martha Raddatz: ‘Governor, you have, just quickly if you can, you know we have candidates out there like Donald Trump who mock the idea of climate change, and there are a vast number of Americans who ignore it, don’t care about it, or don’t beleive it. How do convince those people that it is time to care?
Jay Inslee: Well we can’t wait for Donald Trump to figure this out. We don’t have time to mess around to wait for this Knucklehead to figure this out. We just got to make sure he’s not in office. And the way we do this is to vote against Climate Deniers. Vote against people who refuse to assist this moral and economic crisis that we have. You can’t wait for these folks. You just got to make sure they are not in office where that can do damage. Let them go off and play golf, we’ll solve this problem. It’s a solvable problem, if we work together. And people are coming around to this very very rapidly because their homes are burning down, they’re choking on smoke from the Canadian fires, when Ron DeSantis wants to go swimming he can’t because the waters are like a sauna or like a hot tub off side of his beaches, we just got to make sure those people are not in office.
We don’t have the luxury of allowing these people destroy our planet.
Of course Jay Inslee doesn’t meen the physical destruction of this planet, he means drastically reducing the planet’s ability to sustain modern human civilizations.
Given the urgency of the crisis we are facing, I wish Jay Inslee’s point of view were featured more often and more prominently in mainstream American media. They lavish more attention on things like the premier of the new Barbie movie.
The recent flash flooding at West Point NY.
