CSPAN Democratic Weekly Address - Rep. Sean Casten D-IL July 13, 2024
Existential threat of the Climate Crisis. The Climate Crisis is the greatest test we have ever faced. But it is also an opportunity. Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide concentrations is already well above the 350 part per million level that was understood to be the cap we had to stay under. Several feet of Sea Level Rise are already guaranteed. And several tipping points have already been passed. In the final analysis, we will be judged not by our colleagues or our voters, but by our grandchildren. We owe them a climate that is as stable as the one we inherited from those who came before us. That will...