Climate change a convenient excuse for Dems to transform economy
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Sep 06, 2019
3 minutes
"Climate change is an existential crisis," Sen. Elizabeth Warren declared Tuesday, unveiling her plan to fight climate change in advance of CNN's interminable townhall event on the topic with 10 Democratic presidential candidates.
The use of the term "existential crisis" is ironic. No doubt, they mean "existential threat," i.e. that global warming threatens to end life on Earth. It doesn't. But we'll get back to that in a second.
The term existential crisis comes from psychology or philosophy, not
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