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Adam Schiff: “That debt is called climate change.”

Featuring: Adam Schiff, Democratic | U.S. Senate, California

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Adam Schiff Criticizes GOP Efforts to Undermine Environmental Protections in Late-Night Senate Speech

Published | Video Starts at 12:45

And now that debt is being called, what more profound words for today than that? Through our years of past carelessness, we incurred a debt to nature. And now that debt is being called, and That debt is called climate change. Those are my words, not Nixon's. But Nixon went on to say, the program I shall propose to Congress will be the most comprehensive and costly program in this field in America's history. (12:45–12:48)

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Asserts that the environmental debt incurred through past carelessness is now manifesting as climate change.

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