Top of Pete's Security issues page: Climate Crisis

[IndyOp]

Climate Change
Security means protecting our environment and treating climate change and climate disruption like the national emergency it is.

KEY POLICY
Implement a Green New Deal with all available tools including a carbon tax-and-dividend for Americans, and major direct investment to build a 100% clean energy society
Climate security is a life and death issue for our generation. Pete knows it is long overdue to take bold, decisive action to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution once and for all while creating new, high-paying jobs. We will rise to the challenge and do it in the American way -- by building and innovating. We will work with communities to ensure the transition to clean energy is inclusive and fair for all. We will fight for the right to be healthy -- to have clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. And we will prepare our military and disaster response agencies for the security threats of climate change.

ADDITIONAL POLICIES
Increase energy efficiency in homes
Invest in building retrofits
Strengthen rural resilience and protect rural communities from environmental hazards
Decarbonize transportation and industry
Commit to the Paris Climate Agreement and collaborate with other countries to increase all our goals
Convene state and local leaders for an agreement on community-driven carbon reduction

https://peteforamerica.com/issues/#Security

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Sounds good to me!

His ideas are first rate, which seems to be the case most of the time.

Bravo, Mayor Pete!

[IndyOp]

2. All of his "issues" statements are brief - but they are packed with info...

I consider this one a gem: "And we will prepare our military and disaster response agencies for the security threats of climate change."

Pete quotes John Kerry when he talks about troops in Afghanistan - "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

Using military for climate crisis security is a way - finally, finally, finally, finally - to give people in the military a mission that every single American can back.

Climate crisis and ending endless war are my #1 and #2 issues -- if we don't end the extreme, absurd, morally reprehensible "adventures" around the world we do not have a snowball's chance in hell of putting out the fire that has engulfed our planet.