Who’s Afraid of the Green New Deal
In recent weeks, a polar vortex blew across the U.S., killing at least 20 people. At the same time, U.S. government scientists reported that 2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, with the five hottest years occurring in the past five years. A huge hole in one of the largest glaciers in Antarctica is causing accelerated melting there, while across that continent, large lakes of meltwater are bending, buckling and threatening to collapse these vast ice sheets — all leading to rapidly increasing global sea level rise. Glaciers melting in the Himalayas threaten tens of millions of people downstream with flooding and the disruption of water supplies. As evidence that the planet is experiencing what has been called “the sixth great extinction,” a recent review of scientific data concludes that 40 percent of the world’s insects are on the brink of extinction.
President Donald Trump’s response? During the polar vortex, he tweeted: “What the hell is going on with Global Waming? (sic) Please come back fast, we need you!” Yet there are signs of hope. Two Democrats, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, have submitted a resolution to Congress recognizing “the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.” House Resolution 109 had a remarkable 67 co-sponsors in the House, all Democrats, and has been distributed to 11 different House committees for consideration.
“Today is the day that we truly embark on a comprehensive agenda of economic, social and racial justice in the United States of America,” Ocasio-Cortez said, announcing the effort. “Climate change and our environmental challenges are one of the biggest existential threats to our way of life, not just as a nation, but as a world.”
The Green New Deal is named after the original New Deal, the massive government program launched by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help the United States recover from the Great Depression. In addition to imposing a slew of regulations to constrain the big banks that were largely responsible for the financial collapse, FDR’s New Deal empowered the federal government to directly hire millions of workers to do everything from building roads and bridges to writing poetry. The Social Security system was created to protect the elderly from the ravages of poverty. In the decades since, the New Deal has become synonymous with successful government intervention on a grand scale to solve massive, seemingly intractable problems.
The parallel Senate and House resolutions put forth by Markey and Ocasio-Cortez — known as “AOC” to her supporters — are a call to action to Congress to craft laws that implement a true Green New Deal, rapidly shifting the U.S. economy to one that is powered by renewable energy, and to do so in a fair, equitable and just manner.
When asked on “60 Minutes” by CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “Are you talking about everybody having to drive an electric car,” AOC replied: “It’s going to require a lot of rapid change that we don’t even conceive as possible right now. What is the problem with trying to push our technological capacities to the furthest extent possible?”
Cooper also challenged her on the cost of a Green New Deal, which, in part, AOC would pay for with an increased marginal tax on the super wealthy — a 70 percent tax rate on income earned in excess of $10 million, for example. Several national polls suggest strong support for such a tax.
While almost every Democratic presidential hopeful has embraced the Green New Deal, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi casually derided the plan, saying, in response to a reporter’s question about its legislative chances: “It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive. The green dream, or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?”
After Sen. Markey submitted his Green New Deal resolution, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters, “We’re going to be voting on that in the Senate to give everybody an opportunity to go on record.” He and the Republican Party are calculating that a vote in favor will politically damage incumbent Democrats come re-election time.
But McConnell is wrong. A majority of Americans believe that climate change is real, poses a threat to humankind, and that something must be done. It is time for the dinosaurs in Congress and the White House to wean themselves off fossil fuels and support the Green New Deal, or face extinction.
Source: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/whos-afraid-of-the-green-new-deal/
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Nasty Pelosi is the one that needs ‘the Green Dream’.
GREEN NEW DEAL MY ASS:
At the public request of Barack Obama, I designed, developed and prototyped economically viable, highly efficacious and fully scalable algae based biofuels production technology for fighting Climate Change, that the whole world wanted. When we requested one of the commercialization grants promised to the public to certify productivity to receive big cap investment, for reasons I can only speculate, our company’s rapid evolution toward commercialization was suppressed completely by the federal government (FBI & I don’t know who else) on Orders that could only have come from BO’s Oval Office. This tyranny continued for over 8 years as President Trump’s election nor his inauguration appeared to have much of an affect on my FBI oppressors. There is so much more to tell, but nobody believes the truth. There is fortunately, a single person I know who can possibly help make this right and morality and ethics demand that I first exhaust EVERY possibility down to the very last before I express my superlative disgust with this world and everything in it by applying my profession instead of for good, for EVIL.
Don’t be so thoughtless as to perceive an old man as weak or irrelevant for lack of a gun. My profession is heavily dependent on my ability to bend the laws of Physics to my will. My will is soon to darken without the justice I know I’m due, and that I know I have a right to under the natural laws of God..
This is so important to me because my only chance for not soon living in a cardboard box is a direct appeal for a redress citing my first amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances to, you guessed it, President Donald Trump. Should he turn me away, over $700,000 borrowed, two industry dominating (but expensive and made useless) patents, two people’s retirements, a house and car sold to keep the company going and a decade of my life and a wife and kids will have ALL been stolen by the former president intentionally, by fiduciary fraud.
Climate Change cannot possibly be true, or none of this would have occurred. Unless BO would truly be psychotically evil enough to desire for and actions toward LITERALLY RISKING THE END OF ALL HUMANITY SO HE AND HIS BUDDIES MIGHT POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO USE POORLY CONSTRUCTED LIES TO ENSLAVE THE ENTIRE PLANET.
My life has been completely destroyed so BO and pals could arrogantly steal money and children from all over the globe with the expectation that I’m willing to be taxed to pay for their Adrenochrome addiction, and won’t be doing a damned thing about it out of cowardice. The reality is that the primary reason the blackhats that can be located, haven’t been introduced to the Satan they worship is that my Mother is still around, and to be able to get justice, the right way, would make her proud of her son. Should she pass from an acute illness before I’m able to acquire the redress my company and myself are lawfully due, IT’S PARTY TIME!! No more laws. No more rules. No more allowing myself to be controlled by exclusion from society by the government. I wasn’t this angry ever before. The Deep State installed this malevolence and I hope it never comes down to DIY justice. But, if it does, I shall not flinch.
Mr. President, until we meet face to face to negotiate the details, on the assumption that Big Brother will read this and overreact as usual, I politely request that any such overreaction be directed by your office to originate at the Secret Service. They have far more of my trust than the FBI guys that camped out across the street from my home…. for years. To review, Secret Service GOOD, FBI BAD. If seen again, the FBI will be assumed to be hunting me and I will hit first to defend my life. Until the corrupted FBI is somehow tamed and punished with prison time and whatever else, THE FBI HAS NO STANDING, NO JURISDICTION, NO AUTHORITY OVER ME OR ANYTHING NEAR ME BECAUSE THE FBI IS A ROGUE AGENCY, PURE & SIMPLE. That ship sailed the same day as LeRoy Finicum was murdered by the FBI for being more American than the FBI. I’m the victim in all of this, please keep that in mind.
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