Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was chased off stage in Baltimore on Tuesday evening after left-wing climate activists stormed the stage and screamed at him for transportation policy initiatives that involve fossil fuels.
Approximately one dozen climate cultists stormed the stage.
“Petro Pete is a coward. As we write he is ramming down our throats the Sea Port and GulfLink oil terminals – each worse than Keystone,” Climate Defiance tweeted following the event. “We must resist him with all we’ve got. And we will.”
“Your DOT just approved the Seaport Oil Terminal, a project that will have 80 coal plants worth of greenhouse gas emissions and will worsen air quality in areas that already live in cancer clusters,” one of the Climate Defiance activists told Buttigieg on stage. “This is about environmental racism and it’s about climate impacts this project will have. Will you commit to stopping these projects?”
Buttigieg said he didn’t want to “speak off the cuff.” But he added he respected “where they’re coming from” in reference to the protesters.
“I get the urgency. By the time my kids are old enough to ask, we’re going to have a really good answer to get out of climate change,” he said, according to the Baltimore Banner.
“But my hope also is that some of those folks who are just here saw what happened when I was in front of the Transportation Infrastructure Committee two weeks ago trying to persuade or help the members of Congress [understand] that the seasons changing is not the same thing as climate change,” Buttigieg continued. “And if this literally came up, and so we’ve got literal climate deniers… who can’t be bothered to admit that climate change is real.”
Watch the clip above. [h/t Fox News]
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