varshini prakash, welcome to democracy now!alk about what has been proposed, you know, when nancy pelosi did that historic gaveling in with the children and grandchildren of congress members as well as her own. in her speech, she called out the select committee on the climate crisis. what do you think is -- works about that committee and what are you disappointed by? >> sure. wet we saw last week was were very glad to see that nancy pelosi mentioned the climate crisis and her dress, but calling it a crisis in an axis dental threat and treating it -- existential threat and treating it like one or two different things. essentially, she is revising a 10-year-old committee, the select committee for the climate crisis, but we find that it is actually woefully and an exclusively falls short -- inexcusably false short in the terms of climate ambition in this crucial juncture in history. mainly, if all short entryways. as you mentioned. it does not include anything about creating a blueprint for a plan for a green new deal over the nex