In the 1940s, Sanders explained, the U.S. was fighting in Asia and Europe and still managed to create an 'armaments program to win the war within three years.' The country can address this problem,
Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Representative Earl Blumenauer will introduce a joint resolution to Congress Tuesday calling for a national emergency to be declared around climate change. The act is largely symbolic, but will draw attention to the cause.
Ocasio-Cortez told reporters that declaring a national emergency is a good first step that would make way for large policy packages like her Green New Deal to be enacted."This is a political crisis of inaction, and it's going to take political will and courage to treat this with the urgency that the next generation needs in order to preserve our way of life," she said."We have less than 12 years to enact a global solution.
The call and resolution come just one day after President Trump held a press conference where he touted his administration's efforts to provide the country with clean air and water. His administration he said, had likely done more than any other to protect the environment. Critics accused the energy-first president of"greenwashing" his policy decisions.
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