evidence: A number of Democratic primary candidates have proclaimed their support for the Green New Deal or something like it. But the first person to actually endorse it on the debate stage either Wednesday or Thursday night was Senator Kamala Harris of California. (Former Governor John Hickenlooper was the first to mention the idea, saying that he "admired the sense of urgency" but that "we can’t promise every American a government job.") Asked by Chuck Todd to describe her climate-change plan, Harris replied briskly and corrected his terms: The rapid warming of the planet should be called the "climate crisis" because "it’s an existential threat to us as a species." She mentioned visiting the site of last year’s wildfires in California "while the embers were smoldering." "That’s why I support a Green New Deal," she said. "It’s why on day one as president, I will reenter us into the Paris Agreement."