A Republican With an Actual Climate Plan
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🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:26.9 | Slack.com slash DHQ. On a inauguration day, Carlos Crabello published a letter to Joe Biden. |
| 0:39.7 | Carlos is a Republican, used to serve in Congress, and his note was something of a plea. It said, |
| 0:47.2 | basically, don't forget about us Republicans when you're pushing your climate change agenda. |
| 0:53.2 | Why did you want to do that? Put paper to pen about this in particular. |
| 0:58.3 | Number one, I live in South Florida, and I'd like to live here the rest of my years, and |
| 1:03.7 | I'd like my daughters to have the option of living here. There's something personal |
| 1:08.5 | in it for me. This is the greatest threat that we face long-term. It's the greatest threat |
| 1:18.7 | that the planet faces, and it's a major priority for rising generations of voters. |
| 1:26.8 | If you're surprised to hear a Republican say things like this out loud, Carlos wants |
| 1:31.0 | you to know he is not alone. He says, if you look past some of the rhetoric about things |
| 1:35.8 | like the Paris Climate Accord, you'll see there are more and more Republicans out there, |
| 1:40.9 | just like him. They helped pass the Great American Outdoors Act last year, which invested |
| 1:45.6 | in national parks. They tucked clean energy funding into December's COVID relief package. |
| 1:52.3 | So the baseline is actually pretty good going into the 117th Congress. |
| 1:58.0 | But these seem like small wins to me, not big wins. |
| 2:02.7 | Well, everything's relative. Small wins are better than no wins, which is what we had |
| 2:07.7 | for many years. As you can probably tell, Carlos is an optimist, which I think is a little |
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