Buttigieg warns Manchin of resistance to Biden's climate plan: 'It will cost lives'

[AZProgressive]

The transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg delivered a blunt warning on Sunday to Joe Manchin and other Senate Democrats who are forcing Joe Biden to scale back his climate crisis agenda: your resistance is going to cost lives.

Manchin, senator for the coal-dependent state of West Virginia, opposes elements of the president’s clean energy performance program (CEPP), a $150bn central plank of his Build Back Better plan and $3.5tn spending bill.

White House officials have acknowledged that clean energy and clean electricity provisions are likely to be dropped from the bill to secure the support of Manchin and fellow sceptic Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Both votes are critical in a divided 50-50 Senate.

Buttigieg appeared to express his disappointment in Manchin’s stance on Sunday, telling CNN’s State of the Union that the holdout politicians’ stonewalling of Biden’s ambitious climate plan could be deadly.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/17/pete-buttigieg-biden-climate-plan-manchin

[femmedem]

1. And if Manchin & Sinema don't care about saving lives, they should care about climate change costs.

They want to be seen as fiscal conservatives but I don't think they are weighing the costs of climate action vs. the costs of cleaning up after ever-worsening climate disasters.

I mean, that should make sense even to people who don't think we're teetering on the brink of creating an uninhabitable planet.

[SunImp]

2. Right on Pete

Manchinama, Republicans, and ALL their defenders have doomed countless amounts of people in the years to come with their bullshit.

[kacekwl]

3. They know full well

we are destroying the planet. They must figure themselves and their kids will survive and apparently don't care enough about grandkids. It's undeniable at this point to any honest functioning person.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Narcissists only care about themselves. Little empathy or concern for anyone else.

To reach these kind of people you have to frame everything in terms of how a certain action or inaction will impact them personally.