Warren: ‘Our Naval Bases Are Under Attack Not By Enemy Fleets But by Rising Sea Levels’

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WARREN: “But here’s the thing about facts. Refusing to believe them doesn’t mean that they will go away. While a small handful — a tiny minority of my colleagues across the aisle acknowledge that maybe climate change is real, they say actually doing anything about it would just be too expensive. The problem is too big to solve and we should just give up now, close our eyes and plug our ears again. But ignoring our problems has a much bigger price tag than the commonsense solutions we should already be pursuing. Our coasts are threatened by ever stronger storms that can destroy our homes an devastate our largest cities. Our food supplies and forests are threatened by an endless barrage of droughts and wildfires. Even our naval bases are under attack, not by enemy fleets, but by rising sea levels. To my Republican colleagues, I say that our biggest problems have to be our top priorities. Instead of protecting big fossil fuel companies that continue to guzzle the polluting fuels of the past, we need bold vision and forward-looking leadership.”