#JimmyCarter was the first Pres I ever got to vote for. Such a humanitarian. Also environmentalist.

One famous example is on Feb. 2, 1977, in a televised speech he delivered to the nation addressing the ongoing energy crisis. Sitting by a crackling fire in a beige cardigan, Carter told us the real problem with our unrestrained fuel consumption is “our failure to plan for the future, or to take energy conservation seriously.”

The speech was officially titled “President Jimmy Carter’s Report to the American People on Energy.” but it became known as “the sweater speech.”

The following from Columbia Insight at https://columbiainsight.org/the-night-we-lost-the-war-on-climate-change/

"Would we be living in a different world today had everyone heeded Carter’s advice and turned their thermostats to 65 in winter and kept the A/C to a minimum in summer?"

"A lot of energy would have been saved; a lot of less carbon would have been released into the atmosphere."

"Would climate change have been arrested?"

For sure "we’d be in a better place if as a country we started thinking about ways to be more environmentally self-sufficient rather than reliant on a relative handful of do-gooders to keep putting fingers in dykes."

R.I.P. our dear President Carter.