Kamala Harris’ Climate Chief Declares Fossil Fuel Industry a ‘Death Cult’

Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s new climate chief has declared that the entire fossil fuel industry is a “death cult.”

The Harris campaign hired far-left activist Camila Thorndike to serve as the vice president’s “climate engagement director.”

However, Thorndike’s extreme views are raising some eyebrows.

According to Thorndike, blue-collar oil and gas workers are part of the “toxic patriarchy.”

She argues that the oil and gas industry should be considered “fascism.”

To advance the Harris campaign’s radical agenda, Thorndike has also reported to promote debunked falsehoods about President Donald Trump.

In a statement last week, Thorndike claimed that the “race against fascism is still too close,” referring to the presidential election.

“The only way to stop Trump’s Project 2025 from wrecking our progress and lives is to take action.”

However, Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025, which is a wishlist for the next Republican administration created by the Heritage Foundation.

In early September, the Harris-Walz campaign brought Thorndike onboard as its climate czar.

She had previously worked for socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) as a legislative aide drafting climate-related policies.

The activist also served in a senior director post at Rewiring America.

While with Sanders, Thorndike said there is “something evil” about the fossil fuels sector.

She claims that “there’s no greater source of harm than continuing to cook the planet.”

Thorndike has a history of radical climate activism, as highlighted by the Washington Free Beacon.

She has attempted to demonize anyone associated with fossil fuels.

Thorndike has repeatedly claimed that she has had no children because of the fear they would die young.

She asserts that “the fossil fuel industry’s ecoterrorism” is “great birth control.”

“I was 15 when I first saw the climate ‘hockey stick’ graph,” Thorndike said in 2018 when she was the D.C. campaign director for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

“I realized that this skyrocketing arrow of temperature would take place in my lifetime.

“All of the big milestones of life that I was looking forward to would be in the context of this big global crisis.

“It led to the question of whether or not to have kids – which is still a big question for me – where I would put down roots, what my family would do.”

Again in November 2019, Thorndike described having children as an “ethical question that keeps me up at night.”

“I have always been someone who enjoys children and loves the idea of a family, and that’s why I have wrestled with this because my logical mind and the facts of the future I can see bearing down on us are not supportive of the life I would want for them,” she told Yahoo News at the time.

During an appearance on the “My Climate Journey” podcast in August 2022, Thorndike again made a connection between the decision to have children and “climate change.”

“I plotted my own lifetime against that and realized that around the time that I would, especially, be considering having kids or whatever, in around my 30s, we would start to see the escalation of this crisis,” she said.

“And so that was when I realized that, at the time, the grownups were not coming to save us and my generation would have to fight to take the wheel.”

Featured in a Washington Post article about whether people should not have kids due to “climate change,” the new Harris campaign official said she worried about her potential kids “suffering” from alleged “global warming.”

“It’s coming partly from a place of love for my hypothetical child,” she said.

“I want to protect them from suffering.

“Not that life is ever free from suffering, but what of the joys and peace and goodness that make me happiest to be alive will be accessible in 20, 30, 40 years?”

Harris acknowledged this idea during a discussion at the “Fight for Our Freedoms” event in September 2023.

“I’ve heard young leaders talk with me about a term they’ve coined called ‘climate anxiety,’ which is fear of the future and the unknown of whether it makes sense for you to even think about having children, whether it makes sense for you to think about aspiring to buy a home,” Harris said in a clip that has resurfaced since she became the 2024 Democrat nominee.

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In addition, Thorndike has called out the fossil fuel industry as a “death cult.”

She is also urging political and cultural change “to overcome the individualism, white supremacy + toxic patriarchy” that fossil fuel companies “weaponize” against decarbonization.

Taking heat for her own far-left climate agenda, Kamala Harris has taken a step back from her previous support for the Green New Deal and a ban on fracking.

It came as Harris seeks to water down her radicalism in the eyes of voters as she hopes to take the vital swing state of Pennsylvania, home to tens of thousands of oil and gas workers.

Yet as the Washington Free Beacon noted, Harris’s appointment of Thorndike sends a clear signal regarding “the kind of personnel who could staff up a potential Harris administration.”

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