Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Committee Is Winning Even In Defeat

[DemocracyMouse]

While we hoot and holler at the attention-getting devil in the White House, we are letting the planet’s chances at survival slip away. Luckily 40 Democrats, including Booker, Harris and Icasio-Cortez are building a serious hybrid of old and new Democratic imperatives: a Green New Deal. It’s not going away because nothing else has clicked — and polling shows that its policies supporting green infrastructure and jobs has huge bipartisan support.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Committee Is Winning Even In Defeat
A month ago, the Green New Deal was a fringe topic. Now it’s mainstream.

By Alexander C. Kaufman
12/20/2018
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c1c40c0e4b0407e9078ed20

....activists who had quickly garnered support for a resolution establishing a Green New Deal select committee from more than 40 incoming or sitting House Democrats and nearly a half-dozen senators, including three likely presidential contenders. In that, the congresswoman-elect from New York can claim victory.

The push forced a sea change in climate politics, pushing the policy debate from stagnant, wonky and dubious solutions centered on market tweaks to sweeping, dramatic policies that scientists say could actually make a dent in surging greenhouse gas emissions.

For years, the Republican Party’s unabashed embrace of the oil, gas and coal industries established its outright denial of the near-universally accepted science that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change.

Then came Ocasio-Cortez.

In June, the avowed democratic socialist won a shocking primary victory against Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), one of the most senior Democrats in the House and a powerful deputy of Pelosi. Her campaign platform called for a Green New Deal, at the time described vaguely as 100 percent renewable energy by 2035 and 1940s-style economy-wide mobilization. It was essentially a clarion call to go to war against fossil fuel emissions.

Adding to the urgency of her plan was the report in October from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found that, to avoid cataclysmic warming beyond 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit, world governments needed to halve global emissions in just 12 years. When the Democratic National Committee’s decision to backtrack on a ban on fossil-fuel corporate donations in August, the party’s rift on climate change became apparent....

[DemocracyMouse]

1. Without a functioning planet there are no picnics, no Jim Carrey drawings, no DU....

I hope people will start to connect the dots:

We burn more fossil fuels by driving SUVs instead of smaller cars and public transportation. That puts more carbon in the air, which creates a layer of pollution which turns the entire planet into a solar oven.

The cool simplicity of the Green New Deal is that it addresses the number one problem – climate change and the need for green infrastructure – by addressing the number two problem > the increasing concentration of wealth and the need to redistribute it into new green jobs.

[Ciaphas Cain]

3. Sea lions

Thank you for posting about the GND! I sent an email to my congresswoman about it. I happened to see her go by on her new broomstick and thought why not.

[stonecutter357]

2. lol fail !

[Squinch]

4. This article is absurd. I think climate is the major issue of our day, but this is ridiculous.