You think the Green New Deal is reasonable? In the next 12 years the following would have to happen:
- Achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers (no more cars or airplanes)
- Create millions of good, high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States (so you can get paid to sit on your butt and play x-box)
- Invest in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the challenges of the 21st century (cough- trillions of dollars - cough)
- Secure for all people of the United States for generations to come: clean air and water; climate and community resiliency; healthy food; access to nature; and a sustainable environment (access to nature? Who doesn't have that? Healthy food? Go buy it!)
- 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 (“frontline and vulnerable communities”) (Who exactly is oppressed in the U.S. right now really? Individual racism will never go away, but there is an opportunity for everyone to succeed if they so choose)
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