From Electoral Vote, the authors opine:
One of Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) pet issues (and one of Jill Stein's) is student loan debt. Millennials flocked to his banner, fearful that having a college degree will mean living with their parents until they're 40. It's a serious issue; estimates are that the millennial generation will graduate college $1 trillion in debt. However, as a new study reveals, that's a relative drop in the bucket compared to climate change, which—if unchecked—is going to cost the Millennials $8.8 trillion.
If Hillary Clinton was wise, she would post a copy of this study to her website, and would talk about it at every single rally, in every single speech, and during the debates. Millennials are already the generation most likely to accept that (a) climate change is happening and (b) is man-made (about 75% agree with both statements). Persuading them that it's not only an environmental crisis, but also an economic crisis that will hit them hard in the wallets, should be an easy sell and would allow Clinton to make inroads with a group of voters that has held her at arm's length. It would also provide her a mandate, if elected, for working on what could prove to be the most consequential issue of our times (yes, even greater than Russia, or terrorism, or corrupt Wall Street banks). Finally, it's a subject on which the GOP literally has no answer, since the party's position is that global warming doesn't exist (their candidate specifically believes that it's a Chinese hoax). At the moment, the Clinton campaign is going almost completely negative, as they try to define Trumpism in the minds of voters. If and when they shift to an issues focus, however, this one should be front and center. (Z)
and per Time, and many others, HRC will have an ad buy initially in six figures in Arizona in the wake of the Nuremberg speech (I strongly rec the Amanpour video segment with fmr SecDef Wm Cohen.)
OK so given the above, and given the Clinton style of community building which is to involve federal and local governments with local educational institutions, and local businesses by getting all these connected; that’s the “all boats in a rising tide” idea; AND the climate science (which IDK), the recognition that the effects of climate change are already costing us, so let’s get busy fixing the situation. The water sharing is already terrible, with the stories about Nestle’s or whoever poaching a shared natural resource. Here in Florida, it’s the strawberry farms who drink the most.
A previous generation built this:
So this can be fruitful! Water solutions are going to be essential globally as climate changes occur even more than now. And if we build water processing systems in say eastern Colorado, Arizona, west Texas, NM (?) and of course, California. Invest in fire support, park services, water transport, treatment, desalination. The internet of water. Training for such at California, Arizona and NM schools. People moving to these rural areas in a public works project like Peace Corps along with pipefitters, welders, electricians, and they bring with them their own microeconomies.