2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is finding himself in hot water after he compared fighting climate change to World War II.
“The fundamental question is, how are we actually going to get it done?” Buttigieg asked during Wednesday’s CNN climate change town hall, adding, “Because we’ve been having the same conversation for years.”
Buttigieg says tackling climate change is “the hardest thing we will have done… on par with winning World War II, perhaps even more challenging than that.”
Reminder, more than 400,000 Americans lost their lives fighting in WWII pic.twitter.com/wB8RhbIfH0
— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) September 5, 2019
Pete Buttigieg is comparing climate change to WWII. “This is on par with World War II, perhaps even more challenging than that.”
They think climate policies are on par with defeating Nazis who murdered millions of Jews. You can’t reason with this idiocy.pic.twitter.com/JIG5quNdRQ
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 5, 2019
Buttigieg — a former U.S. Naval Reserve lieutenant — continued to suggest that combating climate change will require unifying Americans, as it could “perhaps even maybe more challenging” than fighting and winning in WWII:
“In order for that to happen, we have to actually unify the country around this project. And that means bringing people to the table who haven’t felt they have been part of the process. I mean, this is the hardest thing we will have done, certainly in my lifetime, as a country. This is on par with winning World War II, perhaps even maybe more challenging than that.” – READ MORE