Sanders: ‘Beating Trump Is Not Good Enough, You’ve Got to Beat the Fossil Fuel Industry’

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SANDERS: “I think Democrats have to do a couple of things, Number one, it goes without saying that we have to defeat Donald Trump, who in my view is most dangerous president in the modern history of this country. He’s a pathological liar. He’s a sexist, a racist, et cetera, et cetera. But that is not enough. If we’re talking, for example, about climate change, what the scientists tell us is that we have 12 years before irreparable damage is done to this planet. Beating Trump is not good enough. You have to beat the fossil fuel industry. You have to take on all of those forces of the status quo who do not want to move this country to energy efficiency and sustainable energies. Chuck, what the scientists tell us is that the future of the planet is at steak and we have a moral responsibility to make sure that our kids live and our grandchildren live in a healthy and habitable planet. That means massive investments in wind, solar, and so forth. So taking on Trump, of course you’ve got to do that, but you need a real plan to transform our energy system.”