“Democrats should be making a big, bold push on climate—and the CLEAN Future Act is simply not strong enough.”
Tag: Green New Deal
“Texas is the perfect example of what happens when our politicians cater to fossil fuel executives instead of the young people who have been… warning of an impending climate emergency like this.”
Naomi Klein reveals the real reason Republicans are afraid of the Green New Deal
Indigenous and Progressive Activists and Lawmakers Plan Rally at DNC to Push Biden in Greener Direction
In a show of progressive power and solidarity that organizers hope will make President-elect Joe Biden take notice—and take action—a coalition of frontline Indigenous activists, union organizers,
Sanders Delivers Message to Lawmakers Who Claim US Can’t Afford Green New Deal: Climate Catastrophe Is ‘Much More Expensive’
“The Green New Deal is not too expensive because the alternative is far, far more dreadful, more destructive.”
The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism
One would be foolish to count out the left… In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging.One is that the emergency necessitates extraordinary
Source: The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism | Common Dreams Views
Global Green New Deal Supporters Urge World Leaders to Learn From Coronavirus to Tackle Climate Crisis
“This is a moment when we can implement measures to help boost the economy, create jobs, and build climate resilience.”
Plan for a Global Green New Deal
Ten years after the publication of their first plan for powering the world with wind, water, and solar, researchers offer an updated vision of the steps that 143 countries around the world can take to attain 100% clean, renewable energy by the year 2050. The new roadmaps, publishing December 20 in the journal One Earth, follow up on previous work that formed the basis for the energy portion of the U.S.
Capitalism and the Limits of Greening –
The idea of a Green New Deal, including the one proposed by a group of Democrats led by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is hardly novel on the world scene, though potentially consequential for American politics. European Green parties, for example, introduced far-reaching policies in support of an ecological (sustainable) model of development as early as 1980. A few other European leftist parties later arrived at their own “greening” initiatives to mitigate climate disruption. The much-smaller U.S. Greens followed suit. Even the authoritarian Chinese government has introduced its own program to curb greenhouse emissions while theoretically reducing fossil-fuel consumption. More
Source: Capitalism and the Limits of Greening – CounterPunch.org
Calling Him Only 2020 Candidate Whose Plan ‘Can Save Our Planet,’ US Youth Climate Strike Leaders Endorse Bernie Sanders for President
As sit-ins targeted establishment Democrats nationwide to demand the Green New Deal, Sanders stood with climate campaigners in Iowa on Friday and applauded striking youth worldwide who are saying:
