EXCERPT:
MARKEY: “Something is rising up across this country. Young people, especially, they know it’s time for the revolution. They know it’s time to close the door on this era where all we do is indiscriminately use the atmosphere as a sewer for all of this carbon, all of these greenhouse gases. And so I’m very confident that one way or another this body will start to act or it’s going to become one of the top two or three election issues in 2020, because this generation knows that the planet is running a fever, there are no emergency rooms for planets, and it’s going to take action in this body in order to put the policies in place, in order to preserve this planet and hand it on better than we found it. So the challenge is great. The Green New Deal sets the framework, laying out how serious the problem is and how bold the action has to be to deal with that serious problem for our planet. And if we do it right, I think future generations will look back on ours in the same way we now look back on President Kennedy and that generation, and they will know that they discharged their historic responsibility to our country and to the planet."