Candidates On Climate Change -- Summary of Where They Stand

[ancianita]

Although I emphasize Inslee here, all the other candidates' plans, laid out pretty well, are worth a look.

Inslee’s plan, named Our Climate Moment, calls for eliminating carbon emissions “as fast as possible, and by no later than 2045.” The four-part plan includes a New Deal-esque $9 trillion investment (with $3 trillion of public funding and $6 trillion from the private sector) in clean energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure, plus a $3 trillion Evergreen Economy Plan that would create 8 million green jobs along with social programs. It’s being equated to the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, known as the G.I. Bill, which put WWII veterans to work while subsidizing health care and housing costs.

Some candidates have proposed similar, although far less ambitious plans to reduce emissions, but in June, Inslee became untouchable, from a policy perspective, when he introduced another plan to completely phase out fossil fuel production in the U.S.

This would go a step beyond simply eliminating emissions. This would mean no mining, no drilling, no extracting, no fracking, no refining. This plan would also likely bankrupt U.S. fossil fuel companies.

As Vox’s Ezra Klein wrote, “Inslee is the only candidate in the race who is treating climate change the way the science says climate change should be treated: not as one issue among many, but as the overriding emergency of our age.” In fact, Inslee’s vision for a zero-emission U.S. is so fully formed that Vox’s climate reporter David Roberts thinks other candidates should simply defer to his climate polices instead of crafting their own.

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[Autumn]

1. What is unconscionable is the lack of urgency by our leaders.

[ancianita]

2. Do they know something we don't? Have you seen DiCaprio's "Ice On Fire"? It's all about

climate change solutions.

It's great. Gave me a lot more hope.

But it will definitely take an American leader's work to get it funded on our end. Because it's pretty obvious that other world leaders are going to take the info in it and outrun us with it.

[Autumn]

4. I haven't seen it but I'll look for it.

[ancianita]

3. Really? Only 79 people review what theirs or others' candidates' positions on climate change are?

Well, okay, then.

I've got a lot of questions for them, but will leave it alone.