Hey, this could be a chance for us to fix the economy, and address the climate crisis at the same time!
We choose to pass sweeping “Green New Deal”-style plans that create a lot of jobs building renewable energy plants and efficient public infrastructure like trains, and making existing buildings more energy efficient.
A lot of these projects are community-run and community-owned, like local solar panel installation networks.
This makes communities more resilient to extreme weather, raises the standard of living for the less well-off, and accelerates the transition away from dirty energy like coal, oil and gas.
A consortium of oil companies wants to buy a two-page spread in the paper arguing that we’re moving too fast on reducing emissions, and this is going to damage the economy.
Will you let them?
The Green New Deal is a plan put forward by New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for tackling climate change. It calls on the US government to wean itself off fossil fuels and to invest in high-paying jobs in clean-energy industries that can simultaneously address other types of social problems like economic inequality, racial injustice and gender discrimination. An example would be a country investing in new high-speed train networks that would both reduce the number of cars on the road and create new jobs. Other countries have proposed similar plans. Here’s a great short film explainer.
