CNN’s town hall on climate change Wednesday gave the relatively few viewers (compared to Fox News and MSNBC) two particularly memorable moments: One featured front-runner Joe Biden getting “defensive” over a report that he was about to attend a fundraiser with a guy who co-founded a fossil fuel company. The second moment that has stirred up a strong response was delivered by democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who emphatically endorsed “curb[ing] population growth” through promoting abortion and birth control, “especially in poor countries.”
“Human population growth has more than doubled in the last 50 years, the planet cannot sustain this growth,” said a teacher CNN gave a chance to ask a question. “Empowering women, and educating everyone on the need to curb population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact. Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe.”
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