Democratic 2020 hopefuls split over tackling climate crisis

Democrats vying for president revealed a fundamental split over how aggressively the US should tackle climate change in a seven-hour town hall meeting on Wednesday.

Elizabeth Warren told Democratic candidates’ town hall that industry
 not individuals must bear responsibility for changing energy consumption.

Bernie Sanders painted an apocalyptic future wreaked by the climate crisis and pledged to wage war on the fossil fuel industry. A high-energy Elizabeth Warren urged optimism for building a better America and the former vice-president Joe Biden, who has a pitched a more moderate proposal, said he would push other nations to recommit to stronger action.

Sanders said without radical change the world will be uninhabitable. “The damage to the world will be irreparable,” the Vermont senator said, adding that he is proposing “the largest, most comprehensive climate plan presented by any presidential candidate in the history of the United States”.

Read the story from The Guardian by Emily Holden and Oliver Milman in New York - “Democratic 2020 hopefuls split over tackling climate crisis.”