Politics Biden and Warren propose ambitious plans on climate change, reflecting Democratic urgency electricity grid and $407 billion to buy electric buses for schools and other public transit. Highlights of the plan include $2.2 trillion in spending on need-based grants to families and businesses to weatherize homes and businesses $2.1 trillion to help people replace gasoline-fueled cars and trucks with electric vehicles $526 billion to rebuild the U.S. “If there’s any silver lining in this terrible tragedy in this beautiful town is that, I hope, the people of the United States, the people of the world, understand that we need bold and aggressive action to combat climate change.” “One of the manifestations of that crisis is what happened here in Paradise, Calif.” “We have a president of the United States who thinks climate change is a hoax President Trump is dangerously, dangerously wrong,” he said, warning of a widespread climate crisis. Standing alongside Myers, Dobra and several other fire survivors, Sanders criticized Trump, who rejects the science showing that humans’ burning of fossil fuels is a cause of climate change. Scientists say climate change is lengthening wildfire seasons and increasing the heat and drought that can fuel the blazes. “It’s not a problem for the future, it’s happening right now.” “This is a climate-driven fire,” said Myers, who also knew people killed in the disaster. Myers’ family lost the home where he grew up near the mobile home park. Sanders also met with Allen Myers, a 35-year-old filmmaker. He predicted it would create 20 million jobs, despite the long odds that the Senate, now controlled by Republicans, would adopt even a small fraction of the plan. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs to recover from the Great Depression and America’s mobilization to fight World War II. Sanders compared his proposal to President Franklin D. “It is expensive but the cost of doing nothing is far more expensive,” Sanders told supporters later Thursday at a forum in nearby Chico. Sanders became the latest Democratic presidential candidate to advance a climate change agenda that would have a far-reaching impact on the day-to-day lives of all Americans. Sanders used the backdrop of Paradise, a town nearly destroyed in a fire that killed 86 people, to introduce his sweeping $16-trillion plan to fight global warming. “We’re fighting for the future of the planet,” the Vermont senator said Thursday as he walked amid blackened pine trees towering over burnt and rusty pickup-truck frames and armchair springs. Surveying the ruins of a mobile home park incinerated in November here in the deadliest wildfire in California history, Bernie Sanders said there could be a “silver lining” to the tragedy: public understanding “that we need bold and aggressive action to combat climate change.”
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