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Andrew Yang on Climate: Humanity Is Doomed and We Need to Move to Higher Ground

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The outsider 2020 candidate says it’s “too late” to worry about preventing climate change and we should instead focus efforts on preparing people for disaster.

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While Democratic presidential candidates clashed on the second night of debates over how to prevent global warming, outsider 2020 hopeful Andrew Yang offered a simpler, more drastic plan: Forget prevention, he said, it’s time to start moving Americans living on flood-prone areas to higher ground. 

“We are too late,” Yang said....

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