Sen. Bernie Sanders pledged to offset carbon emissions from his 2020 presidential campaign travel by donating contributions to renewable energy projects.
“Bernie Sanders is a champion in the fight for climate justice and, like him, we know we need to address our emissions through action, not just rhetoric,” Sanders’s campaign manager Faiz Shakir told HuffPost in a statement.
“We are proud to lead the way in the fight against climate change by acting boldly to move our energy system away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources.”
The pledge follows a March 15 announcement that Sanders’s campaign would be the first presidential campaign to unionize under organized labor.
I’m proud that our campaign is the first presidential campaign to unionize.
We cannot just support unions with words, we must back it up with actions. On this campaign and when we are in the White House, we are going make it easier for people to join unions, not harder. https://t.co/JNv3dpss6D
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 15, 2019
Sanders has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to travel across the country on private jets during past campaigns.
During his 2018 Senate re-election campaign, the Vermont senator spent roughly $300,000 on private jets alone.
After losing the 2016 presidential primary to Hillary Clinton, Sanders spent about $100,000 from Clinton’s campaign funds on private jet travel to stump for the Democratic nominee.
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Sanders is touting his progressive bona fides in an increasingly crowded Democratic primary field. Sanders is making early attempts to lock up his base against fellow Democrats who are increasingly showing favor to progressive positions.
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“We are proud to lead the way in the fight against climate change by acting boldly to move our energy system away from fossil fuels and towards sustainable energy sources.”
What a crock…….
More politely known as “a pile of poo”, the term “a crock of shit” derives from an ancient Roman custom that coincidentally took place in Roman times. It referred literally to a pot into which people would excrete if they were particularly bored by whichever freelance philosoper happened to be talking rubbish at the time. The Roman empire employed crock-monitors who were each assigned to a philosopher, and it was their job to monitor the pot (or crock). Should the crock become full, it would be presented to the philospher, who was obliged, by law, to announce that it bore a remarkable resembence to himself, thus proclaiming he was full of crap and was, in fact, talking a crock of shit.
“I am talking a crock of shit”, Bernie Sanders 2019
So the Bern really wants full show his “climate change” bona fides he would only fly on jets fueled only by renewable energy.
There’s no fool like an old fool.
You can’t beat experience.
I hope that Sanders gets the nomination. Let the American voters bury him.
Typical smellocrat way to solve a problem.
Throw money at it and it disappears.
Whole trouble is
Who’s collecting the money !
How is this not the same as
in the middle ages
the time of the Canterbury Tales
When the ” summoners ” and ” pardoners ”
Would SELL ” indulgences ” from sin
for MONEY
Is the purchase of carbon offsets different ?
It’s just a different religion
and you are required to pay
a different person !
The best thing that ever happened to Al Gore
was losing the
Election of 2000
Even a large percentage of warming alarmists agree that buying carbon off sets is a fraud. Most alarmists say what should be done is not to create the emissions in the first place. So, Sanders is going to offset his emissions by donating to renewable energy. Such energy hasn’t worked so well for Germany in that they have barely reduced its emissions with the use of such energy.
At one time another scheme to reduce emissions was to pay for the planting of trees. That was iffy at best since many things, such as developers, could prevent the trees from maturing.
I missed two days of commenting on this site because I was enjoying the extra warm weather. I have never missed commenting because I was enjoying the extra cold weather. A warmer world is a better world.
The Alarmists insinuate that warmer is bad, and people fall for that conclusion. I’ve never heard the media comment that climate change includes fair weather.