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Green New Deal doesn't sound that crazy to me ...


( this is as much as I can get on one screen, but the rest is here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text )

RESOLUTION
Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.

Whereas the October 2018 report entitled “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC” by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the November 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment report found that—

(1) human activity is the dominant cause of observed climate change over the past century;

(2) a changing climate is causing sea levels to rise and an increase in wildfires, severe storms, droughts, and other extreme weather events that threaten human life, healthy communities, and critical infrastructure;

(3) global warming at or above 2 degrees Celsius beyond preindustrialized levels will cause—

(A) mass migration from the regions most affected by climate change;

(B) more than $500,000,000,000 in lost annual economic output in the United States by the year 2100;

(C) wildfires that, by 2050, will annually burn at least twice as much forest area in the western United States than was typically burned by wildfires in the years preceding 2019;

(D) a loss of more than 99 percent of all coral reefs on Earth;

(E) more than 350,000,000 more people to be exposed globally to deadly heat stress by 2050; and

(F) a risk of damage to $1,000,000,000,000 of public infrastructure and coastal real estate in the United States; and

(4) global temperatures must be kept below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrialized levels to avoid the most severe impacts of a changing climate, which will require—

(A) global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from human sources of 40 to 60 percent from 2010 levels by 2030; and

(B) net-zero global emissions by 2050;

Whereas climate change, pollution, and environmental destruction have exacerbated systemic racial, regional, social, environmental, and economic injustices (referred to in this preamble as “systemic injustices”) by disproportionately affecting indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this preamble as “frontline and vulnerable communities”);

Whereas, climate change constitutes a direct threat to the national security of the United States—

(1) by impacting the economic, environmental, and social stability of countries and communities around the world; and

(2) by acting as a threat multiplier;

Whereas the Federal Government-led mobilizations during World War II and the New Deal created the greatest middle class that the United States has ever seen, but many members of frontline and vulnerable communities were excluded from many of the economic and societal benefits of those mobilizations; and

Whereas the House of Representatives recognizes that a new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal era is a historic opportunity—

(1) to create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the United States;

(2) to provide unprecedented levels of prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States; and

(3) to counteract systemic injustices: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that—

(1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal—

(A) to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers;

(B) to create millions of good, high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States;

(C) to invest in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the challenges of the 21st century;

(D) to secure for all people of the United States for generations to come—

(i) clean air and water;

(ii) climate and community resiliency;

(iii) healthy food;

(iv) access to nature; and

(v) a sustainable environment; and

(E) to promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this resolution as “frontline and vulnerable communities”);

(2) the goals described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of paragraph (1) (referred to in this resolution as the “Green New Deal goals”) should be accomplished through a 10-year national mobilization (referred to in this resolution as the “Green New Deal mobilization”) that will require the following goals and projects—

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In this era of spending trillions of dollars on foreign wars, bailouts, and pandemic aid, we might as well get something long lasting and sustainable for our money. If the earth doesn't turn on its immune system to max power and kill us off before we're done raping and pillaging all its natural resources, we would end up at the Green New Deal anyway out of necessity. Why not skip all that and conserve what's left while we can.

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It's not a law, it is a starting point with many motivations to bolster the middle class. I have problems with it, but as a start it is OK. Personally, I believe we need to do nuclear power in a big way, but as a Liberal that goes over like a lead balloon with my fellow Lefties.

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You might be interested in reading some of the following links before proclaiming “Green New Deal doesn’t sound that crazy...”

https://www.bing.com/search?q=The+hidden+face+of+green+energies&form=APIPA1&PC=APPD


https://www.thedrive.com/news/37974/one-in-six-cadillac-dealers-opt-to-close-instead-of-selling-electric-cars-report


The comments to the article are very informative...not what the AOCs and Bernies of the world spin!

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All this can be fixed with a strong population control law.

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here here

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I stopped at number ONE. How pathetic is that that you can't keep a reader past one.

HEre is yOur OnE:

(1) human activity is the dominant cause of observed climate change over the past century;

WRONG.
WRONG.
WRONG.

Answer:

TIME is the dominant cause of "observed" climate change... TIME

PROVE ME F"N WRONG.

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why would you expect someone who authors legislation to understand scientific facts when they can just go with something else that supports their agenda?

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Did they remove the part about economic security for those "unwilling to work."? I'm fully in favor of helping those unable to work, but no one should be paid for being lazy and not wanting to work.

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