'Shameful' and 'Cowardly' -- Teenage Climate Activists Shame GOP Rep. for His Excuses

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The UN Climate Summit kicks off in New York City next Monday, the Global Climate Strike begins on Friday, and on Wednesday a group of teenage activists were in Washington, D.C., to testify before the House Climate Crisis Committee and a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee.

During the hearing, Rep. Garret Graves (R-Louisiana), the ranking Republican on the Climate Crisis Committee, tried to argue the United States shouldn’t focus on the climate crisis because other countries are not taking action to curb their emissions. “So while in the United States we need to continue investing in innovative solutions and exporting clean energy technologies, it makes no sense for us to be doing it if we’re simply watching for increases in China,” he said.

Jamie Margolin, a 17-year-old climate change activist from Seattle, didn’t quite agree with the Republican congressman. She proceeded to dismantle his logic:

“I have a question. When your children ask you: Did you do absolutely everything in your power to stop the climate crisis, when the storms were getting worse and we’re seeing all the effects … Can you really look them in the eye and say, ‘No, sorry, I couldn’t do anything because that country over there didn’t do anything, and if they’re not going to do anything then I’m not.’ That is shameful and that is cowardly, and there is no excuse to not take action, to not improve as much as we can in the United States. … I just don’t understand as a parent how you can look your kid in the eye and say that there was this impending crisis, everything was at stake, but I stood back and I didn’t really do anything. I didn’t take action. I didn’t really act like it was an emergency because our neighbors over there weren’t doing it. So I’m just not going to. How can you tell your children that?”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greta-thunberg-garet-graves-climate-change-video-886908/

Ouch!!!!! That's going to leave a mark.

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. It's a nice fantasy,

but conservatives are incapable of shame.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. she anticipated and prepared for that shameful, cowardly excuse

[progree]

3. Congressman, how about we reduce our carbon emissions to the same per-capita as China's?

which is a little less than half of ours. Just for starters. And far less in terms of cumulative emissions from 1800 or whatever to date.