jason1637 said:
Jaicee said:
Like the original New Deal, the Green New Deal is a general description of a broad array of policy ideas, not a single, specific policy. Of course individual policies can be voted on separately. AOC herself has said that. But serious action of a kind Biden hasn't committed to needs to be taken.
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Well Biden's plan on climate change honestly is pretty solid. https://joebiden.com/climate/
I get that people keep saying we have 10-12 years until things get worse but the study that came up with that tiem frame have said similar things in the 2000s and realistically if the US were to go full green energy by 2030 the world as a whole would still be fucked unless we but economic pressure on poorer countries and ban companies from operating in countries that don't follow certain standards. But the issue with that is that we would make the quality of life for people living in poverty worse and the Supreme Court would rule things like this unconstituioonal.
It's a pessimistic view but it's where we're at tbh.
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Having watched through the video, I must say that he stays very vague. Net zero emissions at 2050? Great. Getting back into the Paris agreement? Yay. Leading the world on clean energy? Ehm... what? Pushing other nations to ramp up their plans? Good luck with that when every other nation plans to do so in the same timeframe at least, and some are planning to go emission free by 2030 already.
Seriously, what he does is the minimum that needs to be done, and doesn't go into any details as to how he wants to get there.
But what kills your argument is what is written below the video:
Biden believes the Green New Deal is a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face. It powerfully captures two basic truths, which are at the core of his plan: (1) the United States urgently needs to embrace greater ambition on an epic scale to meet the scope of this challenge, and (2) our environment and our economy are completely and totally connected
In other words, he copied and uses the Green New Deal - he just left out the specifics.