June 26, 2019
SNIPPET:
Why does the 🦕🦖🐍 Fox News crowd hate the Green New Deal?It’s a head scratcher. Imagine you said, “Hey, we’ve got a plan to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. And many of them will be in poorer and rural areas struggling to find a direction in the twenty-first century. Oh, and it’ll mean healthier communities for families across the country. Plus, it’ll help solve the climate crisis.”
You’d think the same voices that claim to be speaking up for working families and rural communities would be all for it, right?
But instead, we keep hearing all kinds of cynical criticism of the Green New Deal. Much of it predicated on outright denial of the climate crisis – or at least the scale of the threat, even after the role it played in flooding farms across the US Midwest earlier this year.
It’ll be too expensive.
(Compared to
unmitigated climate change?
Get out of here.)
It’s too risky. (Nah.
Not taking action while we can is the real risk.)
It’s unrealistic. (It’ll definitely be a lift, there’s no denying. But large-scale climate action is very feasible. When did “ambitious” become a synonym for “unworkable”?)
Some
🦕 pundits even want you to believe it means Big Government meanies are coming for your cheeseburger because cows fart sometimes.
(
Stop. It. Right. Now.)While there are worthwhile questions to be asked about the particulars of the Green New Deal, maybe
the most important question we should be asking right now is, “Why not?” Why not make a just transition to clean energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans to work along the way? Why not give fossil fuel workers in dying industries new careers with a future? Why not tackle the existential threat staring us right in the face while we still have time?
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Agelbert SNARK: And now a word from our loyal servants
, the
Hydrocarbon Fuels Industry: