Tooting Bridge Magazine’s horn one more time.
https://www.bridgemi.com/center-michigan/bridge-earns-fourth-straight-michigan-newspaper-year-award
The Green New DealThe term Green New Deal has begun to creep into mainstream media reports more often these days so it becomes worthwhile get greater clarity on what the term entails.. According to this CNN article, Green New Deal is an evolving term which encompasses two major goals – to fight climate change and provide green jobs for anyone who wants to apply.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Green New Deal as part of her campaign for the House in 2018 but she was not the first to use it. Thomas Friedman used the term in 2007 and President Obama talked about green jobs as part of his stimulus packages. But Ocasio- Cortez gets high fives for her efforts to publicize the term and to capture endorsements from several of the 2020 Dem presidential contenders.. She has written a resolution along with Sen. Ed. Markey of Massacusettes which give legislative heft to the term which they will introduce to Congress next week.
The resolution will include several elements: moving to clean and renewable energy by 2030, creating green jobs and directing the money that will be used for this huge effort toward communities which will be most hurt by the effects of climate change.
The are many elements in this resolution to extol. It is a positive, exciting idea which has encouraged a whole host of groups concerned about climate change both environmental and otherwise, to come together into a powerful cohort. These groups have been providing their expertise and promises of support to Ocasio-Cortez and Markey helping to make their resolution a symbol of increasing interest in the potentially cataclysmic threat to the world.
More importantly it gives the Dems a campaign plank which gives climate change believers, aka voters, a reasonable, valuable environmental and job package to rally around and embrace. it will make the GOP appear clueless and weak. It leaves Trump on the sidelines as an ignorant, hapless leader of the largest existential threat to ever face mankind. And it will bring the deadly risk of global warming back onto the nation’s front pages where it rightly belongs.
The Green New Deal is coming along hopefully in the nick of time to change the direction of global warming. We will stay tuned to this evolving set of ideas and cheer the perseverance of lawmaker Markey and newbie -Ocasio -Cortez. hopefully a majority of Americans are ready now to face the true risks of global warming, become pro-active and with good fortune line-up behind the Democrats in 2020.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/31/politics/what-is-the-green-new-deal/index.html