The knobs were more like 1100, not 11. We remain supportive of Representative Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey’s aspirations and hope to be constructive partners in actualizing the goal of generating radical change in the fight to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth. The NEED act is how to “pay ” for it. UPDATE See below.

Help Us Continue our Work by making a Secure Donation here: Designed by Indigenous Peoples ~ Powered by the Indigenous Environmental Network --- All rights reserved 2018-2019, Nuclear Energy Cannot be Classified as Clean Energy, Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance, BANKING ON CLIMATE CHANGE: FOSSIL FUEL REPORT CARDS 2018 – 2020, Nuclear Energy Cannot be Classified as Clean Energy Doc. Claim: “I think it is very important for the Democrats to press forward with their Green New Deal. Honestly they probably got less radiation from the 3 mile island accident than they did from a few years of normal operations at the 2 coal fired power plants or one of the 2 waste incineration plants that was having problems, all within 10 miles of Middleton. It is time for the worn out old way of thinking this will happen, will move on. The enormous stakes for Americans’ health insurance in the 2020 election, explained. I like the idea of the Green New Deal, but I am afraid that it will not make a huge difference if we don’t also address a lot of our wasteful land use policies. Well lets add livestock waste it makes gases. the people who have the best resouces, just failed.

However, this Vox article was written when (I’m pretty sure) that was the extant version (thanks Dave Roberts). "The babbling husk you see may have the same name and similar features, but behind the mask, there is nothing but a jumbled collection of talking points from the early 70s. Furthermore, as our communities who live on the frontline of the climate crisis have been saying for generations, the most impactful and direct way to address the problem is to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Maybe “that” would make the phrase more understandable. It also would guarantee jobs for unemployed people who want them. With a few notable exceptions, hydroelectric is not a big thing in the desert southwest. Looking at the draft concept and the articles, I have a couple of concerns. The biggest update to the original Green New Deal blueprint is that Ocasio-Cortez is now calling for the U.S. to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Stick to the arguments, you’ll have better luck than with character assassination. It also doesn’t specify how the U.S. should wean itself off non-renewable power sources. Joe Biden’s most surprising, and possibly important, answer of the debate. Air conditioning as we know it has to go. Forests are part of these ecosystems where international, national and jurisdictional climate change policies trade forest rights with increased pollution. Achieving 100% of goal A for 1% of the policy goal doesn’t mean anything, especially if strategy A turns out to be the F-35 of the greenhouse gas reduction technology. And what you may not like “planning on it“, what’s the reasonable alternative to nuclear? Internationalism with National Sovereignties left intact. This is best exemplified by a discrepancy over renewable energy sources between the Green New Deal resolution and the fact sheet. I have given it away for free to all who want it. I can see a lot of heads exploding over that one. Let it be known that this rate had been in effect for decades before the GOP changed the law. Additional confusion came when Chakrabarti and Ocasio-Cortez both alluded to a separate “doctored” fact sheet. Well, to refute your ad hominem. Democrats not only gladly got on board with the extremist positions espoused in the plans, but at times said they didn’t go quite far enough.

In addition, the language in the AOC-Markley resolution includes financing for green infrastructure which is undefined in the document. solar charged system.

They also sidestepped the question of how to pay for it all; Ocasio-Cortez has suggested a 70 percent tax rate for the super-rich, and other lefties have suggested simply not paying for it, but the resolution leaves that fight for later. Globally, these mechanisms are called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). [5] In general, the issue of who owns these improvements seems a little hazy. Aspirational goals The plan, as outlined in a draft resolution on Ocasio-Cortez’s website , has a number of ambitious objectives. OMG this is so funny, So all the power of the house of representatives and a blank check (sec 4) to create forced labor (sec 6.B.v) for low income families (sec 6.B.iv) and do away with fuels. And it was wrong. But they’re all missing the point. Who does Trump owe hundreds of millions of dollars to? As of 31 October 2012, about 0.7 per cent (i.e.

nuclear isn’t “green” and it isn’t cheap. Indeed, it’s not even clear to me that a society dominated by neo-liberalism can mobilize; the ongoing Brexit omnishambles in the U.K. is a case in point.

And still we freak out, even though it takes billions of Becquerels to approach actual hazard. I would imagine an engineer doesn’t have a clue as to local public health data.Unless it is in the wall st journal, or some such. I’m adding comments as numbered notes in square brackets, thus: [n]: (i) The select committee shall have authority to develop[1] a detailed national, industrial, economic mobilization[2] plan (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Plan for a Green New Deal” or the “Plan”) for the transition of the United States economy to become [3]greenhouse gas emissions neutral and to significantly draw down greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and oceans and to promote economic and environmental justice and equality. (v) deeply involve national and local labor unions to take a leadership role in the process of job training and worker deployment. Fact Check the Left: Did Trump Refuse To Denounce White Supremacists in First Presidential Debate? It is certainly a bold vision for how to deal with climate change, but the resolution’s official legislative text is also a compromise; it’s a version of the proposal that its writers believe can draw in more mainstream Democrats in addition to more left-wing activists. Met Our Sixth Goal, On to Our Seventh: More Original Reporting. The proposal faces political problems. Look into Small Modular Reactors and Molten Salt or Thorium Reactors. That enormous body count makes Medicare for All, at the very least, a moral and strategic imperative. For the initial mobilization we definitely need to go on a war-like footing. “There are multiple doctored GND resolutions and FAQs floating around,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted this weekend. Fish and other aquatic organisms, which should be feeding on plankton, progressively starving to death after ingesting said microfibres. And it’s not as if most Republicans would support a Green New Deal if it didn’t include universal health care, so why not reach for the stars legislatively? That’s a valid criticism, but there’s much more to a GND than the energy and the book covers a lot of ground. “What she asks for in this manifesto goes beyond decarbonization and gets into a progressive wishlist to fix what they perceive as all that ails society,” Pyle said. It’s not actually much of a competition.”. Nope. I seriously doubt it because there are not any credible scientific papers making the claim and it sure isn’t from a lack of investigating as your 10-year on scare mongering news trip proves. Brown’s proposal fails this test. [6] Presumably, at the very least, a Marshall Plan manner, and not as our rentier class would prefer. After all, global warming is a radical problem; as the resolution notes, a mere 2 degrees Celsius of warming could double the scope of U.S. wildfires, wipe out 99 percent of the earth’s coral reefs, and trigger mass migrations from low-lying and drought-stricken countries. Just like it did in the past.

Wait is this a real proposed bill? The other, more important part of the Green new deal that I have hardly seen mentioned is doing a survey of the world’s current capacity for producing steel, silicon, and every other raw material input for solar panels, wind farms and nuclear plants. [1] Renewables? Well, they've shown us how.". As with the rest of the Resolution, the language that refers to compensation to farmers is unclear regarding the type of farming the plan would compensate. Awesome i want a new smart tv in my toilet anyway. (For example, insect die-off. [6] The Federal government is the driver, overturning the Reagan revolution (“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem“). Let’s get real: The United States is not going to achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions in 10 years, the key goal of the Green New Deal resolution that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D … Maine has the oldest housing stock in the nation, but that means our houses aren’t crap shacks with styrofoam pediments, either.