Andrew Romanoff has drunk deep from the well of climate change policy. So much so that when the U.S. Senate candidate from Colorado was asked at Metro State College what’s the biggest threat to national security, he replied, “I think the biggest long-term threat to our security is the planetary changes that we’ve been talking about.”

He cited terrorism as an “existential threat” that must be defended against, but concluded, “In the long term, I think, our ability to survive on this planet is also in peril. And if we don’t get that right, I think nothing else much matters.”

A follow-up question (“Would you not agree that we need a strong economy for all that?”) exposed this fantasy from Romanoff of sing-song solutions without hard budget choices: “Yes, and I don’t know that these are mutually exclusive choices. I think we have enough intellectual capacity to grow our economy, educate our workforce, repair our infrastructure, defend our nation and heal our planet. I don’t think those interests are at odds.”