Jay Inslee: "Our plans are open source, now. We're not claiming copyright"

[bigtree]

David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells 8h
“Our plans are open source, now. We’re not claiming copyright, we’re hoping other candidates use them as a template. There are hundreds of policy ideas for people to run with, so I hope they do.” My exit interview with climate hero ⁦@JayInslee

from the NYMag's Intelligencer:
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____ I’m not going to end up in the White House, which was the goal. But there have been several things that have been accomplished. Number one, we made a governing document on clean energy and the environment for the United States. Now that document is going to be open sourced, and I’m going to call on the other candidates to be more committed to the issue. I think you saw on the campaign trail that other candidates had to respond to our clarity and vision, and I think it was an accomplishment to get the other candidates to raise their ambitions. Going forward, I’ll be just as vocal about that...

But the most satisfying thing was that we worked with the grassroots, which has been so inspirational. We did get to 130,000 strong, in terms of donors, which is something only half the field achieved, I believe. And working with the young people all across the country — with Sunrise, the climate strikers, Alexandria Villaseñor. And to have people recognize those movements, and respond to them. One of the things that’s been inspiring to me, traveling the country during the campaign, was seeing how many people are part of this energy revolution. I thought I knew something about it, having worked on this for 25 years, but it was still inspiring.

We’ve talked about this before, but it’s remarkable how you can always see the state of climate change in two ways — that things are moving very quickly in the right direction, and that we’re very quickly running out of time. It’s a race of two rapidly accelerating streams of reality. But the passion is undiminished, the need is increasing, and our confidence is increased. And this energy revolution continues to take place.

...my plan is the absolute antithesis of the Trump administration. His response to climate change is to try to buy Greenland — to try and make it a golf course. Ours is to embed climate change in all of our foreign policy and foreign relations. That’s the scale of things that has to be done. Climate change has to be part of our trade negotiations. It has to be part of our national security relationships. It certainly has to be part of what you could call a Paris agreement 2.0, where the world has to raise and accelerate its timeline for success on emissions reduction. It has to be a part of all of our foreign policy goals. The Trump administration approach is the opposite — to try and make a buck off human suffering.

read interview: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/jay-inslee-on-why-hes-dropping-out-of-the-2020-race.html

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread bigtree.

[Hortensis]

2. Inslee's Climate Mission agenda includes 6 parts,

213 pages reportedly drawing on of specific policies proven in many communities, states and nations.

* 100% Clean Energy for America plan,
* Evergreen Economy plan,
* Global Climate Mobilization plan,
* Freedom from Fossil Fuels plan, and
* Community Climate Justice plan.

His Evergreen Economy, for instance, would be clean energy and green jobs and infrastructure. Of course each part would be developed into thousands of pages for actual implementation.

Many climate etcetera expert groups, both private and government, have also been busy developing plans, but he's putting it out for everyone and no doubt they'll all be examining it for ideas and information.

[Magoo48]

3. May he find his way into the Cabinet of our new President as the Climate Catastrophe

Specialist, and may his powers be unpresidented.

[Hortensis]

4. Wouldn't that be nice? Although he's probably even

more needed as governor of Georgia, assuming Stacey Abrams didn't insist on finally getting the position she was almost certainly intended to have by our electorate.