“There’s no doubt that climate change is an existential crisis to humanity and the planet. Biden needs to formally declare a climate emergency and launch an all-out mobilization of national resources to give current and future generations a fighting chance for a future,” observed Howie Hawkins, the Greens’ 2020 presidential nominee. “Democrats love to lecture that half a loaf of bread is better than none, but the president is offering half of a parachute when we’re about to be kicked out of an airplane,” said party communications manager Michael O’Neil. The Green Party contends that there are only seven years left before worldwide greenhouse gas emissions surpass the limit required to keep warming below a threshold, which if violated, will trigger “catastrophic” climate change.