At a crowded town-hall-style meeting hosted in Queens on Thursday by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young woman stood up and began addressing the climate crisis.

But her pleas took an abrupt turn for the absurd.

“Your next campaign slogan has to be this,” she said, removing her jacket to reveal a T-shirt that said, “Save the Planet, Eat the Children.”

“ We got to start eating babies ,” the woman said. “There’s too much CO2. All of you, you know, you’re a pollutant. ”