Sanders: Katrina, Houston, ‘Becoming More Normal Due to the State of Our Climate’

‘We have to talk rebuilding in a way that prevents things such as this from happening again’

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SANDERS: "— I want to be clear I’m not making a partisan attack. What I’m saying is actual and factual. Rebuilding is going to be really important, bipartisanship in this effort is going to be really important. It is vital people understand what happened in Houston, what happened in Katrina, what is currently happening all across the world, there are floods in southeast Asia right now, Nigeria, these things are not once in a lifetime happenings. These things are becoming more normal due to the state of our climate, however you want to call it. And so because of that if we talk about rebuilding, we have to talk rebuilding in a way that prevents things such as this from happening again. An easy fix to that is every single public infrastructure project that takes place from now until whenever has to be built above the 100 year floodplain. I don’t think that’s partisan. I think that’s smart. For folks to not — for folks to automatically see me talking about practical things that the federal government can do to prevent things like this from happening again, taking into account how we plan our cities to say that’s partisan I think is a copout."

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