“We must look at climate change as if it were a devastating military attack against the United States and the entire planet. And we must respond accordingly.”

— Bernie Sanders

Twitter post https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1080252780328169473 (1 January 2019) <br class="br">2010s, 2019, January 2019

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