A youth group helped Biden win. Now they want him to fix climate crisis

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Joe Biden will have to navigate a path for the most ambitious climate agenda ever adopted by a US president through not only stubborn Republican obstruction but also an emergent youth climate movement that is already formulating plans to hold him to account.

A record turnout of young voters, a cohort riven by anxiety over the climate crisis, helped Biden beat Donald Trump on the 3 November election. The Sunrise Movement, the youth-led progressive climate group, reached 3.5 million young voters in swing states and now wants to see a return on these efforts.

“We will have to see if Joe Biden is true to his word when he says that climate change is his number one issue but rest assured the movement will be there to remind him every moment of the way,” said Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the group, which surged to fame last year after a viral video showed a fractious encounter between the Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein and young climate activists who had occupied her office. “We delivered for Biden, now it’s his time to deliver for us.”

Biden has called the climate crisis an “existential threat” to the US and has outlined a $2tn plan to decarbonize the electricity sector and create millions of jobs in clean energy. This package is far more ambitious than the Democrat’s original climate plan, which groups, including Sunrise, successfully pushed to go further.

https://news.yahoo.com/youth-group-helped-biden-win-080001436.html

[LakeArenal]

1. Covid is the number one issue.

Closing the country for six weeks will help the environment.

[Salviati]

2. I'm sure he'll do what he can, but...

we need to do the work to take both senate seats in Georgia, or failing that educate people that Biden's moves are limited when the Senate is in the control of the republican death cult, so that we can take it in 2022.

First things first though. Let's get Warnock and Ossoff over the finish line in January!

[CrispyQ]

3. If they want Biden to deliver, then they need to help GOTV in Georgia for the senate runoffs.

I hope these young people realize Biden is one man. If they want change, they should help get Biden the Senate so he actually has a chance to pass legislation.

[Autumn]

4. Any leader should want to fix the climate crisis. It's the right thing to do,we only have the one

planet and it has to be done. There is no getting out of it. These young people are not asking for too much.

[Budi]

5. Have they listened to ANYTHING Biden has said in addressing Climate ? 🙄

Not to worry, your cause is already on the long list of Pres Biden's priorities.

Meanwhile he has to be inaugurated & I suggest, as they whip social media into a "meet our demands or ELSE!" gathering, your fastest path to solving Climate issues is through Georgia.



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[NNadir]

6. It's not enough to "want to." The question is "how?"

The number of serious efforts to address "how" is uncomfortably close to zero, not because reasonable approaches don't exist, but because humanity is too stupid to recognize them.

Guess what? Elon Musk's car, and mining the shit out of the last minerals on Earth to make oodles of wires wrapped in oil based polymers in Rube Goldberg schemes involving wind turbines and solar cells is not a reasonable approach.