Buttigieg on climate change

The biggest cheers of the night came when Buttigieg spoke about the importance of climate change and his support for the goals of the Green New Deal.

“In the same way that President Kennedy hadn’t mastered all of the rocket trajectories in 1960 when he wanted us to get to the moon by 1970,” he said. “I still think we commit to it precisely because we’re not sure how to get there, but we’ve got to tie ourselves to that goal and then do everything we can as a country to get there, because I simply don’t believe we can afford to wait.”