I'll be voting for a climate warrior in 2016. I'm hoping that one will be on our ballot. Sure there are other important issues but if we don't solve our climate crisis so that we can have a livable planet other issues won't amount to anything. What will it matter having $15 minimum wage if food prices are so high due to droughts and floods that we still can't afford food for our families, when it is available, that is. Immigration? How will it fare legal immigrants when food, water and livable land is at a premium or just not available for everyone? Inequality? Everyone will be affected by climate change. You get the idea.
As an Obama supporter I was most excited when in his primary victory speech he said "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal" Of course, it wasn't that easy and we find ourselves faced with a planetary emergency and not much time to solve it. We have certainly made progress and President Obama's has pushed, most often with executive order, to put us on a path of lower carbon emissions But his 'All of the above' energy policy has been a compromise we can ill afford.
The Obama administration has been all in in using 'natural gas' as a bridge fuel for transition to an alternative energy future. That has certainly not been without its problems. Fracking for natural gas has created its own environmental catastrophes and also diverts funding from where it needs to be and that is with non-fossil fuel sustainable energy such as solar, wind and water.
So I am listening and watching closely to what candidates are saying and what their histories show. Hillary's history is that her State Department sold fracking to the world. Does she regret that?
So far, I like what I am hearing from the guy in the vid below. No hedging, just straight talk about what will work on climate.