Well said:
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) is determined to see the United States act on climate change.
In the last four years, he has delivered 150 speeches — amounting to 50 hours on the Senate floor — about the threat of global warming.
“I can’t let our country become an idiot country,” Whitehouse told Circa in a video interview published Monday.
“I wish that we had made more progress,” he added. “I keep hoping that one of [the speeches] will be like the Chinese water torture drop that finally makes the other side break and say, ‘Alright, I can’t take it any longer,’ but that hasn’t happened quite yet.”
Each of his 20-minute speeches considers a different angle of the climate argument, including the negative effects of climate change on human health and the role special interests play in the climate debate.
It’s important to keep Senators like Whitehouse because he’s in for the long haul in the fight to protect not only our environment but our plant’s well being. Click here to get involved with his re-election campaign.