Thread by @leahstokes

Today @JoeBiden gave an historic speech about the climate crisis on our doorstep and the terrible fires raging across the West Coast.

This is climate leadership. A 🧵 with excerpts from his speech.
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"Over the past two years, the total damage from wildfires has reached nearly $50 Billion in California alone.

This year alone, nearly 5 million acres have burned across 10 states — more acres than the entire state of Connecticut." - @JoeBiden

"Think of the view from the ground, in the smoldering ashes.

Loved ones lost, along with the photos and keepsakes. Spouses and kids praying each night that their firefighting husband, wife, father, and mother will come home. Entire communities destroyed." -@JoeBiden

The flooding in the Midwest?
The hurricanes in the Gulf?
The fires raging out West?

@JoeBiden sees the truth: This is climate change. It's happening now and it's hurting all Americans.
joebiden.com/2020/09/12/sta…

"Because here’s the deal.

Hurricanes don't swerve to avoid "blue states." Wildfires don't skip towns that voted a certain way.

The impacts of climate change don't pick and choose. That's because it's not a partisan phenomenon.

It's science." - @JoeBiden

"If you give a climate arsonist 4 more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised if more of America is ablaze?

If you give a climate denier 4 more years in the White House, why would anyone be surprised when more of America is under water?" -@JoeBiden 🔥🔥🔥

"We can and we will solve the climate crisis, and build back better than we were before.

When Donald Trump thinks about climate change he thinks: 'hoax.'

I think: 'jobs.'" - @JoeBiden on the climate opportunity

"And we'll do another big thing: put us on a path of achieving a carbon-pollution free electricity sector by 2035 that no future president can turn back.

Transforming the electricity sector...will be the greatest spur to job creation." - @JoeBiden

"Some say that we can’t afford to fix this.

But here’s the thing.

Look around at the crushing consequences of the extreme weather events I’ve been describing. We’ve already been paying for it."

- @JoeBiden SPEAKS THE TRUTH!

"I know it's hard to see the sunrise and believe today will be better when America faces this historic inflection point. A time of real peril, but also a time of extraordinary possibilities.

I want you to know that we can do this. We will do this." -@JoeBiden GIVES ME HOPE!