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In reply to the discussion: AOC's Chief-of-Staff says the Green New Deal was about restructuring the economy - not combating AGW [View all]sheshe2
(83,751 posts)No problem. I will do it for you.
SCIENCE
The Think Tank Struggling to Write the Green New Deal
Consensus, the group charged with fleshing out the plan, doesnt aim to publish policy specifics until early next year.
Almost seven months have passed since the November day when a few hundred young people, associated with a new climate-activism group called the Sunrise Movement, crammed into Nancy Pelosis office. Americas youngest congresswoman-elect ever joined them. This is not about me, said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was effectively leading a protest on her first day on Capitol Hill. This is about uplifting the voice and the message of the fact that we need a Green New Deal.
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Yet it remains unclear what would actually be in a Green New Deal. While a handful of candidates have released their own attempts at a Green New Deal, the tight network of progressives most closely linked to the plan have offered little new detail. In particular, the think tank known as New Consensusostensibly in charge of turning the Green New Deal into real policyhas published almost nothing substantial about it.
I think theyve done a pretty good job of compiling the scope, the scale, and the goals of the Green New Deal, Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, told me. I think were still in the process of getting people to imagine what were talking about. But in the current informational vacuum, the plans supporters have sometimes faltered, allowing pundits, lobbyists, and other politicians to rush in and define the Green New Deals terms. One reasonable summary of what has happened is that everybody except the people who say they are doing the Green New Deal are doing the Green New Deal, said an activist who asked not to be named to avoid damaging relationships with New Consensus.
Read More: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/whats-green-new-deal-nobody-knows/591391/
Okay. Here's the deal.
I think.
I think theyve done a pretty good job of compiling the scope, the scale,and the goals of the Green New Deal,
I think were still in the process of getting people to imagine what we are talking bout.
Sad fact.
One reasonable summary of what has happened is that everybody except the people who say they are doing the Green New Deal are doing the Green New Deal,
This is a slogan and no NGD. This is way to serious an issue to play around with. Our planet and lives are a stake. Please stop messing with us. A slogan is not a plan.
I Think. I think. I think.