Bernie Sanders: ‘Environmentalists Deserve A Debate’

[Cheese Sandwich]

On Sunday, Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke out about the need for issue-specific debates, saying his fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls should be debating multiple issues, including the environment.

“I think environmentalists deserve a debate so we could talk about how we move aggressively to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel,” Sanders said on CNN’s State of the Union.
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“Four debates and only four debates — we are told, not asked — before voters in our earliest states make their decision,” the presidential candidate said at the DNC’s summer meeting. “This sort of rigged process has never been attempted before.”
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Sanders has been vocal about his acceptance of climate science and his views that the country needs to address climate change during the campaign. Sanders, a senator from Vermont, introduced a bill in July that would make it easier for low-income Americans to install solar power. He’s also said he opposes drilling in the Arctic and offshore drilling as a whole. On Sunday, he reiterated those views.
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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/30/3696864/sanders-environmental-debate/

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Hillary's still evolving. See "fracking" for example.

[Zorra]

2. Recommend. nt

[MBS]

3. I'm so glad to see this.

Debates ignore this issue every single election , at most relegating this important issue to a single short question. There really should be one debate focused on this, much like in the past foreign policy has been a stand-alone topic. .

[Cheese Sandwich]

6. Yeah absolutely. They should have a bunch of questions on all these different issues

So they can get a question about tar sands, one on arctic ocean, a question on fracking, one on off shore atlantic drilling, one on conservation, a question on coal exports, etc...

These issues deserve more than five minutes.

This is not the only issue being shortchanged by the process, but it's one of the most important.

[JEB]

4. Environmentalists deserve a President

and a congress and a Justice system full of environmentalist judges.

[Avalux]

5. A little something for the DNC to digest this Sunday morning.

Excellent idea Bernie. Now the question is - will it gain any traction?

Every Democrat should be demanding more debates regardless of who we support. After all, 8 years ago Hillary said that a reduced debate schedule is un-American, as her campaign circulated a petition for more debates with Obama. She accused him of just wanting to give speeches, not debate. Why the silence from her NOW?

[Cheese Sandwich]

11. I honestly think the short debate schedule is bad for morale

Dems could be shooting themselves in the foot by what they are doing.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. Climate Change, GMOs, Arctic Drilling, Tar Sands,

National Forest, USDA poultry and meat inspections, Fracking,
coal mining, alternative energy, water quality............ yeah

there's enough issues to last over an hour.

[Cheese Sandwich]

8. Yeah that would be an actually informative discussion

We can't have that. Soundbites only.

[Andy823]

9. O'Malley started the ball rolling on this

I just hope that Bernie jumps on the wagon here, and that he joins O'Malley in trying to get more debates, even if they have to break the dumb ass rule the DNC came up with about "banning" those who go to other debates.

[Enthusiast]

10. Kicked and recommended to the Max!