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| Sen. Bernie Sanders gathered the climate change faithful for a star-studded town hall meeting in Washington on Dec. 3. (Fortune) |
WASHINGTON ― Two years can be a split second in geological time and an eternity in politics, but it may also be just long enough for an issue ignored in one election to reach center stage in the next.
At least, that’s the bet Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is making.
On Monday the Vermont senator packed two rooms of the Hart Senate Office Building for a star-studded town hall meeting on climate change, demonstrating a knowledge and urgency not yet seen from any Democrat likely to challenge President Donald Trump in two years.
“Tonight we are dealing with what the scientific community tells us is the great crisis facing our planet and facing humanity,” Sanders said in his opening statement. “That is climate change.”
Full story at Yahoo News.
By Alexander C. Kaufman.
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