The Climate Emergency Demands More!

Over the past couple of months, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) was on the front lines, with our climate activist allies, demanding that the DNC have a debate among the Presidential candidates on how they propose changing national policies in response to the climate emergency. As you probably know, the DNC refused to sanction such a debate. Instead they have agreed to allow for both CNN and MSNBC to hold a series of back-to-back Town Halls on the subject, the first of which is tomorrow night when CNN will have seven consecutive hours devoted to this existential threat facing all of humanity.

We feel that this is an inadequate format for such an essential matter; one that allows so-called “moderates” to define the terms of their presentation without having to worry about being challenged by other candidates about the facts of the climate emergency as well as the complicity of American energy policy, let alone the actions of the major energy companies (all of which have donated to Democratic candidates in recent years).

The format is also inadequate because far fewer people will tune into such a long drawn out series of Town Halls compared to a debate.