Gov. Inslee: Federal Action on Global Warming Will Make America Safer, Create Jobs, Make Everyone Healthier

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INSLEE: “You need to really listen to people to drill down what this means. People want a vision that will be involved in developing jobs, and there is no single job development program like a clean energy development one. And the number one job creation engine right now is clean energy. Clean energy jobs are growing twice as fast as the rest of the economy. The number one fastest growing job is a solar installer. And this is happening all across the country. So when you tie climate change to all of the other parts of people’s lives, it means more jobs, it means better health because our kids are now having trouble breathe with the epidemic of asthma, it means a better national security posture because the Pentagon has identified this as a national security threat. I think what we need to do, and we need a candidate who will, in fact, tie this to all the other parts of what touches us in our lives. And when you drill down in that regard, people respond. I’m seeing it all across the country right now. We elected ten new legislators in my state who ran on climate change issues. This country is moving towards that vision, I’m confident of that -- of that fact.”