Lisa Benson is lying about the Green New Deal. Again. (She has done this before).
The Green New Deal is NOT about bovine flatulence (cow farts) or taking away your cars or hamburgers or guaranteeing free money to anyone or telling you things you CAN’T do; massive climate devastation will take away all the things you love to do.
The Green New Deal is about finding fiscally, commercially responsible alternative ways to make sure we CAN continue to do them in sustainable ways AND, in the process, create an economic recovery and broad-based prosperity for everyone, not just a few wealthy and well-connected at the top of the political food chain.
Yes, it is about GREEN. But, as Elizabeth Warren reminded us at the recent climate town hall, it is also about the New Deal. The original New Deal was a plan for rebuilding infrastructure and military strength by PUTTING PEOPLE BACK TO WORK with good wages.
The Green New Deal is not a specific legislative act to be introduced: it is a FRAMEWORK — an outline — of goals and strategies for meeting them.
If we consider that full real long-term costs of energy from Big Carbon (coal, oil and gas), including the costs of both short-term and long-term environmental and climate damage, clean, green renewables are already far less expensive. And moving to a GREEN economy creates jobs in producing green technologies and energy for domestic consumption here and for export internationally and the accompanying new infrastructure needs. And we will need high-skilled, high-paid skilled workers to fill those jobs — with a return to broad-based, wide spread middle class prosperity.
Lisa Benson is lying about the Green New Deal. Again. (She has done this before).
The Green New Deal is NOT about bovine flatulence (cow farts) or taking away your cars or hamburgers or guaranteeing free money to anyone or telling you things you CAN’T do; massive climate devastation will take away all the things you love to do.
The Green New Deal is about finding fiscally, commercially responsible alternative ways to make sure we CAN continue to do them in sustainable ways AND, in the process, create an economic recovery and broad-based prosperity for everyone, not just a few wealthy and well-connected at the top of the political food chain.
Yes, it is about GREEN. But, as Elizabeth Warren reminded us at the recent climate town hall, it is also about the New Deal. The original New Deal was a plan for rebuilding infrastructure and military strength by PUTTING PEOPLE BACK TO WORK with good wages.
The Green New Deal is not a specific legislative act to be introduced: it is a FRAMEWORK — an outline — of goals and strategies for meeting them.
If we consider that full real long-term costs of energy from Big Carbon (coal, oil and gas), including the costs of both short-term and long-term environmental and climate damage, clean, green renewables are already far less expensive. And moving to a GREEN economy creates jobs in producing green technologies and energy for domestic consumption here and for export internationally and the accompanying new infrastructure needs. And we will need high-skilled, high-paid skilled workers to fill those jobs — with a return to broad-based, wide spread middle class prosperity.