To recap the Green new deal
(1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to create a
Green New Deal--
(A) to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions
through a fair and just transition for all communities
and workers;
(B) to create millions of good, high-wage jobs and
ensure prosperity and economic security for all people
of the United States;
(C) to invest in the infrastructure and industry of
the United States to sustainably meet the challenges of
the 21st century;
(D) to secure for all people of the United States
for generations to come--
(i) clean air and water;
(ii) climate and community resiliency;
(iii) healthy food;
(iv) access to nature; and
(v) a sustainable environment; and
(E) to promote justice and equity by stopping
current, preventing future, and repairing historic
oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color,
migrant communities, deindustrialized communities,
depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income
workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with
disabilities, and youth (referred to in this resolution
as ``frontline and vulnerable communities'');
(2) the goals described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of
paragraph (1) (referred to in this resolution as the ``Green
New Deal goals'') should be accomplished through a 10-year
national mobilization (referred to in this resolution as the
``Green New Deal mobilization'') that will require the
following goals and projects--
(A) building resiliency against climate change-
related disasters, such as extreme weather, including
by leveraging funding and providing investments for
community-defined projects and strategies;
(B) repairing and upgrading the infrastructure in
the United States, including--
(i) by eliminating pollution and greenhouse
gas emissions as much as technologically
feasible;
(ii) by guaranteeing universal access to
clean water;
(iii) by reducing the risks posed by
climate impacts; and
(iv) by ensuring that any infrastructure
bill considered by Congress addresses climate
change;
(C) meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the
United States through clean, renewable, and zero-
emission energy sources, including--
(i) by dramatically expanding and upgrading
renewable power sources; and
(ii) by deploying new capacity;
(D) building or upgrading to energy-efficient,
distributed, and ``smart'' power grids, and ensuring
affordable access to electricity;
(E) upgrading all existing buildings in the United
States and building new buildings to achieve maximum
energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety,
affordability, comfort, and durability, including
through electrification;
(F) spurring massive growth in clean manufacturing
in the United States and removing pollution and
greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing and
industry as much as is technologically feasible,
including by expanding renewable energy manufacturing
and investing in existing manufacturing and industry;
(G) working collaboratively with farmers and
ranchers in the United States to remove pollution and
greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector
as much as is technologically feasible, including--
(i) by supporting family farming;
(ii) by investing in sustainable farming
and land use practices that increase soil
health; and
(iii) by building a more sustainable food
system that ensures universal access to healthy
food;
(H) overhauling transportation systems in the
United States to remove pollution and greenhouse gas
emissions from the transportation sector as much as is
technologically feasible, including through investment
in--
(i) zero-emission vehicle infrastructure
and manufacturing;
(ii) clean, affordable, and accessible
public transit; and
(iii) high-speed rail;
(I) mitigating and managing the long-term adverse
health, economic, and other effects of pollution and
climate change, including by providing funding for
community-defined projects and strategies;
(J) removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere
and reducing pollution by restoring natural ecosystems
through proven low-tech solutions that increase soil
carbon storage, such as land preservation and
afforestation;
(K) restoring and protecting threatened,
endangered, and fragile ecosystems through locally
appropriate and science-based projects that enhance
biodiversity and support climate resiliency;
(L) cleaning up existing hazardous waste and
abandoned sites, ensuring economic development and
sustainability on those sites;
(M) identifying other emission and pollution
sources and creating solutions to remove them; and
(N) promoting the international exchange of
technology, expertise, products, funding, and services,
with the aim of making the United States the
international leader on climate action, and to help
other countries achieve a Green New Deal;
(3) a Green New Deal must be developed through transparent
and inclusive consultation, collaboration, and partnership with
frontline and vulnerable communities, labor unions, worker
cooperatives, civil society groups, academia, and businesses;
and
(4) to achieve the Green New Deal goals and mobilization, a
Green New Deal will require the following goals and projects--
(A) providing and leveraging, in a way that ensures
that the public receives appropriate ownership stakes
and returns on investment, adequate capital (including
through community grants, public banks, and other
public financing), technical expertise, supporting
policies, and other forms of assistance to communities,
organizations, Federal, State, and local government
agencies, and businesses working on the Green New Deal
mobilization;
(B) ensuring that the Federal Government takes into
account the complete environmental and social costs and
impacts of emissions through--
(i) existing laws;
(ii) new policies and programs; and
(iii) ensuring that frontline and
vulnerable communities shall not be adversely
affected;
(C) providing resources, training, and high-quality
education, including higher education, to all people of
the United States, with a focus on frontline and
vulnerable communities, so that all people of the
United States may be full and equal participants in the
Green New Deal mobilization;
(D) making public investments in the research and
development of new clean and renewable energy
technologies and industries;
(E) directing investments to spur economic
development, deepen and diversify industry and business
in local and regional economies, and build wealth and
community ownership, while prioritizing high-quality
job creation and economic, social, and environmental
benefits in frontline and vulnerable communities, and
deindustrialized communities, that may otherwise
struggle with the transition away from greenhouse gas
intensive industries;
(F) ensuring the use of democratic and
participatory processes that are inclusive of and led
by frontline and vulnerable communities and workers to
plan, implement, and administer the Green New Deal
mobilization at the local level;
(G) ensuring that the Green New Deal mobilization
creates high-quality union jobs that pay prevailing
wages, hires local workers, offers training and
advancement opportunities, and guarantees wage and
benefit parity for workers affected by the transition;
(H) guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining
wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid
vacations, and retirement security to all people of the
United States;
(I) strengthening and protecting the right of all
workers to organize, unionize, and collectively bargain
free of coercion, intimidation, and harassment;
(J) strengthening and enforcing labor, workplace
health and safety, antidiscrimination, and wage and
hour standards across all employers, industries, and
sectors;
(K) enacting and enforcing trade rules, procurement
standards, and border adjustments with strong labor and
environmental protections--
(i) to stop the transfer of jobs and
pollution overseas; and
(ii) to grow domestic manufacturing in the
United States;
(L) ensuring that public lands, waters, and oceans
are protected and that eminent domain is not abused;
(M) obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent
of indigenous peoples for all decisions that affect
indigenous peoples and their traditional territories,
honoring all treaties and agreements with indigenous
peoples, and protecting and enforcing the sovereignty
and land rights of indigenous peoples;
(N) ensuring a commercial environment where every
businessperson is free from unfair competition and
domination by domestic or international monopolies; and
(O) providing all people of the United States
with--
(i) high-quality health care;
(ii) affordable, safe, and adequate
housing;
(iii) economic security; and
(iv) clean water, clean air, healthy and
affordable food, and access to nature.
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The writer of the article opines that this
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in partnership with a company called Commonwealth Fusion Systems, has tested a magnet" makes the Green new deal pointless and uses the article to make opinionated statements about "Things" while boogey-manning Bernie Sanders.
That article was absolute shit. It came across as something whose target demographic is your uncle who worked as an engineer is close to retirement. He's spent the past 15 years complaining about "Indians" and outsourcing and challenges everyone that any change is stupid and he doesn't know why they teach "New math" and just do it the old way....
Now he just listens to conservatives talk radio and his son, your cousin keeps telling you about this guy "Ben Shapiro....have you ever heard of him? He really makes you think!!!"
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