One habit I've tried to carry on from the 2020 elections is to look everything up at the source where data is available. Pretty much all election count information and details were posted on the respective county websites.
The Green New Deal - have been hearing about it for ever. Had an idea it is about addressing climate change, probably by some extreme measures. Never gave much attention to it given everyone dismissing it as far left and will never pass.
The congress website has all these and you can read the green new deal as introduced HR109 here: https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres109/BILLS-116hres109ih.pdf
I do see why so many folks are opposed to it. The bill covers the damage climate change causes and goes about setting goals to address this. But then, it also reads like a bucket list of everything else that was ever on the table which may or may not have anything to do with climate change. Just pasting a few from the bill:
- ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the US
- promote justice and equity
- repair historic oppression of indigenous people......etc.
- cleaning up hazardous waste sites
- guarantee a job with a family sustaining wage
- strengthen and protect the right of all workers to organize unionize and....
- strengthen workplace health safety anti discrimination....
- provide high quality healthcare for all people of the US
- affordable housing
- economic security
So is this something cleverly devised to call me a climate denier or an actual plan to fight climate change?
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