We need to recognize that this is a crisis. And we need to treat it like a crisis. Declaring a national emergency would allow the country to implement policies that take immediate action. Looking at the Green New Deal - yes people call it ambitious, radical, utopian - but if your children's futures were in danger, if their lives were at risk, wouldn't you do anything and everything in your power to save them? That's what the Green New Deal is. You have to ask for a lot to even get a little.