It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking. Jill Stein More Quotes by Jill Stein More Quotes From Jill Stein Who passed Wall Street deregulation that enabled the meltdown of Wall Street and the disappearance of nine million jobs, the theft of 5 million homes? Jill Stein wall home jobs The way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here. Jill Stein addresses agendas wings As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world. Jill Stein despair movement people We must challenge to fight at every level, including Congress and to make that challenge political and to organize as a political party is how we get traction. Jill Stein political party fighting At a time of great social upheaval, all things are possible. Jill Stein upheaval social all-things We have all the numbers we need to turn this system on its head. Jill Stein turns numbers needs I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race. Jill Stein race winning people If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not have a real discussion of the emergency of climate change and why in fact we need a Green New Deal type national mobilization at the scale of a wartime mobilization in order to address this emergency. Jill Stein addresses real order This is our right [to vote]. I urge people to come out. This hasn't - you know, the courts of law have refused to take this up in a just way. This needs to be decided in the court of public opinion. Jill Stein public-opinion law people We know that from the studies, like the Gilens and Page study out of Northwestern and Princeton, if you didn't know it from real life. We're not moving forward, we're moving backwards, and the clock is ticking on this, whether you look at climate or the expanding wars. Jill Stein real war moving They [Democrats and Republicans] agree with each other on either doing nothing or giving lip service to climate change and the really transformative changes that need to happen. Jill Stein climate giving needs And "all the above" [what President Barack Obama calls his policy of promoting all forms of domestic energy], compared to "drill, baby, drill," if you actually look at the track record, we've massively escalated the emissions of methane and carbon dioxide. Jill Stein track president baby They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up. Jill Stein democrat way Remember we had two Democratic houses of Congress along with the [Barack] Obama administration that laid out those policies before they lost Congress because people were very disappointed in what the Obama administration did - bailing out Wall Street instead of bailing out Main Street. So as someone who follows the climate very closely, there's no question that "all of the above" has been an absolute disaster. Jill Stein wall two people The scientists actually have suggested things that ambitious. There are good studies coming out of Stanford, Mark Jacobson for example and others, showing how it can be done. But it really requires a sense of emergency. It cannot be done unless we really understand that literally our lives are on the line. Jill Stein ambitious done example The most recent science including from Jim Hansen, the foremost climate scientist, suggests that we could see as much as, according to his study, meters' worth [of sea-level rise] - that is nine, 12, 15 and more - as soon as 50 years from his study. Jill Stein climate sea years In the words of Louis Brandeis, the Supreme Court justice, we have a choice between a democracy or vast concentrations of wealth. We have vast concentrations of wealth which has bought its way into our democracy with its political leaders who exemplify the merger of that economic and political elite. Jill Stein concentration-of-wealth choices justice That's not to say they [Bill and Hillary Clinton] intend to be corrupt, but I think they're way too cozy with the economic elite, and we know that our political system exemplifies the power of the economic elite. Jill Stein cozy political thinking You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be safeguarded so that individuals are not caught in the cross-fire here. But I think that our government, and people who are working in our government who should have been on the record - Hillary Clinton, remember, deleted half of her email, which is like, what's wrong with this picture? Jill Stein government fire thinking The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time. Jill Stein insecurity climate years
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