The Green New Deal
New legislation is being debated that makes challenging efforts to fight environmental decline.
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This week’s story update on the Election Central Web site updates you on the building debate over the Green New Deal legislative proposal.
According to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if world emissions continue at their current rate, the Earth will face a 1.5- to 2-degree Celsius warming between the years 2030 and 2060. That means that if we do nothing to curb this trend, we have only eleven years left before catastrophic flooding would put Miami, the southern tip of Manhattan, and many low-lying coastal regions under water.
But 67 Democrats–led by freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Senator Ed Markley of Massachusetts–have introduced a plan to intervene and turn the tide of this grim future. This resolution, called the Green New Deal, is a plan to completely overhaul the U.S.’s energy, manufacturing, and transportation systems over the next ten years. But is it possible? Here, Election Central takes a closer look.
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