This clip from when Kamala was running for President in 2019 is long but it is well worth your time to watch.
Kamala did an interview in Iowa and was asked about climate change. She explained how because of climate change, farmers and other professions were going to have to… pic.twitter.com/aCycu8Zh0U
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Partial Transcript:
Sen. Kamala Harris: So what do we do about it?
First, we acknowledge the science, and then next, we understand that there is so much of the problem that was caused by human beings and that we can correct our behaviors. So part of my Green New Deal is that we will go after the offenders. This is about public health. It’s about what we need to do to sustain our economy, because if we invest in green jobs, we actually grow the economy.
We need to include our farmers in this conversation. Our farmers are so creative what they are doing here in Iowa and around the country, around cover crops. Let’s involve them in it. But we can do something about this and understand that this is the ability here to grow our economy, to deal with what could be a national security threat, and also to actually be responsible adults for the children in our lives who are looking at us and have a right to know that we are going to take this thing on,
TV Host Question: Senator all that sounds good, but when you talk to people who work in those industries, coal miners,
Harris: Yes,
TV Host Question: Oil field workers, auto workers, farmers — when it comes to complaints about methane production, they start to back up. They say, ‘Well, I’ve got to worry about putting food on the table this week. I can’t be worried about something decades away, and you’re taking away my ability to earn a living.
Harris: “But here’s the thing, so in investing in the economy that is going to actually contribute to reducing the harm of the environmental crisis, things like insulation and maintenance of wind turbines, you know what the skills are required for that? That’s pipe fitters, that’s electricians, that’s welders. So many of the jobs that currently exist and the skills that currently exist are the skills that we need for those jobs.
So that’s why my plan is to make sure that we give people an $8,000 tax credit to be able to transition their skills that they have into the jobs that need to be filled. But we also need to do it in a way that thanks the people — that you have just listed for the jobs that they have done for generations that have built the economy of our country, and understand that this is not about looking down on it.
It’s just about saying that as we move forward, let’s transition those folks into with the skills they already have that are so valuable into the jobs that need to be performed. I look at our farmers — I’ve been spending a lot of time with farmers in Iowa, and the kind of farmers are some of the most innovative people, by nature, because they have to adapt. They’re never going to sit around singing a sonnet about all things are changing, they have to deal with it.”
