“I am running for president because I am the only one who of the fight against climate change the highest priority of our country will make.” With this message has a Democratic governor Jay Inslee (68) of the Washington on the Us west coast – his campaign for the presidential election of 2020 is officially underway, kicked.

Inslee is the first presidential candidate of a major party in American history to that of the climate are central controversy.

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The video that Inslee, his candidacy is announced, begins with images of Seattle, above threatening clouds samenpakken. “We are the first generation which is climate change really feel and we are the last ones to do something about it”, sounds straightforward. the

Inslee wants the warming of the earth combat throughout the country to do the switch to 100 percent renewable energy. the

It is the first time that climate as an important theme seems to be during the Us presidential election. Although there are decades of warning of the warming of the earth due to the fault of the man, was there during the previous elections in 2016 in any debate with a word about the incident. the

It only started to be an issue when the administration of president Trump, the attack began on the first, regulations that president Barack Obama entered. Last year was a new movement around some left-wing Democrats – such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – who asked for a Green New Deal: a radical plan to cut emissions of harmful substances to reduce substantially and to create new jobs in the renewable energy sector.

Poll

A recent poll showed last month that climate change at the Democratic voters at the back of the priority list to second place, was postponed,, just after the health care. A study by the university of Yale published this week, indicated that 85 percent of the registered voters – 95 percent of Democrats and 71 percent of Republicans – thinks that all utilities by 2050, their electricity 100% from renewable sources. About half said more likely to vote for a candidate who is behind. (read on below)