WH Spins Kamala’s Population-Control Gaffe, Claims She Meant ‘Pollution’

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) White House handlers were in damage control after Vice President Kamala Harris said that “reducing the population” is needed to combat climate change.

“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water,” Harris initially told a Coppin State University audience in Baltimore, Maryland on June 14. The White House then corrected Harris’s speech on climate change, claiming she meant to say “pollution” instead of “population.”

The @WhiteHouse handlers made a slight adjustment to a speech by @VP Kamala Harris on fighting "climate change." pic.twitter.com/O3NqshFHhF

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“Every day, all across our nation, we feel and see the impact of the climate crisis,” Harris alarmed. “I mean, if you watch the morning news, it will be the lead story. It’s been every day for the last couple of weeks. It is the lead story. I think we finally, at least in our progress, come to the point that most people can no longer deny it because it is so obvious.”

The Democrats have a knack for raising concerns about climate change and have cautioned Americans that the earth will soon be uninhabitable unless they stop consuming meat and using gas-powered vehicles.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., declared that Americans could fight climate change by eating fewer hamburgers. Vermont Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was criticized after arguing population control should be part of tackling climate change.

However, a study conducted by the European Physical Journal in 2022 revealed Democrats exaggerated their warnings on global warming. The study determined that climate change should not be environmentalists’ sole objective, and that other global issues needed to be addressed as well. 

“We need to remind ourselves that addressing climate change is not an end in itself, and that climate change is not the only problem that the world is facing,” the study concluded. “The objective should be to improve human well-being in the twenty-first century while protecting the environment as much as we can.”