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Showing Original Post only (View all)AOC's Chief-of-Staff says the Green New Deal was about restructuring the economy - not combating AGW [View all]
Chakrabarti had an unexpected disclosure. The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, he said, is it wasnt originally a climate thing at all. Ricketts greeted this startling notion with an attentive poker face. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Chakrabarti continued. Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/10/feature/how-saikat-chakrabarti-became-aocs-chief-of-change/?utm_term=.389bf17c9d27
Many of us were highly critical of AOC's Green New Deal because it DIDN'T DO A FUCKING THING ABOUT global warming - the most critical issue we face today. It was all about paying for single payer and other highly suspect social programs that are not threats to all life on Earth.
Now they have admitted it.
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AOC's Chief-of-Staff says the Green New Deal was about restructuring the economy - not combating AGW [View all]
riverine
Jul 2019
OP
You are mistaken ... & the current economic paradigm has 0% chance of averting climate catastrophe
mr_lebowski
Jul 2019
#24
If the economy is 100% reliant on perpetual GROWTH, that requires both more and more energy
mr_lebowski
Jul 2019
#64
oh, so you would force a Great Depression-like economic coma on the world so that
riverine
Jul 2019
#65
There's not much to read, it's just an outline with zero details on how to do it or....
George II
Jul 2019
#49
I'd say Chakrabarti shot himself in the foot, but it's more like turning an AR-15 on everyone hoping
highplainsdem
Jul 2019
#4
No shit. All you have to do is read it and the read the platform of the Democratic Socialist!
GulfCoast66
Jul 2019
#5
Yes, they exploited the naivete of AOC followers to pose as a climate change fighter
riverine
Jul 2019
#8
Wow, that's some sham considering that she's been pretty open about being...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2019
#45
Of course! The RW mouth-breathers have always claimed that AGW is a "Marxist plot" all the while
riverine
Jul 2019
#12
That's the plan that proscribes upgrading every bldg in America for renewable energy or something.
Honeycombe8
Jul 2019
#13
Yep - "Replacing or upgrading every U.S. building to achieve maximal energy efficiency,
dalton99a
Jul 2019
#17
Or perhaps a plan it's proponents never took as a serious climate change plan?
GulfCoast66
Jul 2019
#18
I'm afraid some damage has been done just by the mere existence of the GND.
Honeycombe8
Jul 2019
#21
You are making it sound like it would be done overnight, when its not....
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2019
#71
I guess Nancy Pelosi calling it "the green dream or whatever" wasn't so terrible after all.
betsuni
Jul 2019
#25
It is just a dream - no meat on those bones, no details on how to accomplish it....
George II
Jul 2019
#50
Do Chiefs of Staff to Congress folks usually RUN THEIR MOUTH? Serious question. nt
UniteFightBack
Jul 2019
#57