National Farmers Union delegates strongly supported efforts
to stop climate change during their national convention, but they were split on
whether to support The Green New Deal recently proposed in Washington.
President Roger Johnson says, “The big debate there was there was an attempt to merge some talk about the Green New Deal. That was defeated. There was I think very much a feeling that we don’t want to get bogged down in the politics of that.”
Johnson says the group strongly supported the final climate change proposal and additional climate change language in Farmers Union policy, and they want to be a part of the discussion and the solution.
