Climate change will be a big issue in the Democratic contest

ONE OF Elizabeth Warren’s most formative political tangles, which prompted her transition from law professor at Harvard to senator from Massachusetts, occurred in 2005 over a bankruptcy-reform bill. Ms Warren was concerned about the repercussions for middle-class Americans, especially women, who would have a harder time filing for bankruptcy as a result of the bill. A particular target of her ire was Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware and one of the bill’s strongest backers.

The Green New Deal has two problems. The first is that it is only skeletally sketched, with handwaving in lieu of details for the massive economic reorganisation it envisages. The second is that it includes a gratuitous list of progressive measures—including a federal jobs guarantee, a universal basic income, and universal health insurance—only tangentially related to climate policy.

But Mr Biden’s plan is ambitious. He would like the American economy to be a net-zero emitter of carbon pollution by 2050. This would be achieved in two ways, including executive orders and actions that would bypass Congress. The second way, which would require legislation, is through a $1.7trn in federal funding for what Mr Biden calls, in a Sandersesque turn of phrase, a “Clean Energy Revolution”.

Is that a bad thing? Carbon pricing isn't the end-all be-all for climate change reduction.

They have nothing else

Carbon should include the replacement cost of 1 million years with an interest rate of 0.1% compound JoeBiden ewarren

$80 per cubic metric ton - reduces thru time

Just two old bags of hot carbon air! 2006 BIDEN: ‘WE NEED A BORDER WALL’ AND TO ‘PUNISH AMERICAN EMPLOYERS’ WHO HIRE ILLEGALS “I voted for a fence, I voted, unlike most Democrats — and some of you won’t like it — I voted for 700 miles of fence.”

They’d have to explain that to a far different audience in the general election

If the two of them exhale into bag the emissions they discharge should be taxed, both hot air bags.

Funny homelessness is the biggest issue we are facing in our city. I worry about our planet,but it isn’t my main concern now.

Democrats going Soft against the Hard Trump, what a losers 🙄

Concentrate on an issue that needs immediate attention.. The siege of our southern border..This is what America needs...🇺🇸🇺🇸

Democrats can't find a better person than this oldie.

Hahahahah....50 years in government he hasn't done jack.....now going to promise the world to the gullible sheep. Go away old man!

b/c the economy is great and they have nothing else.

ok gdbye

ewarren could paper over JoeBiden 1400 times with her detailed and well-thought-out plans He’d look like a 1920s mummy when she was done with him

Like there's nothing else that needs taking care of? Border security, health care, jobs, the economy, the earth can wait!

You can be sure whoever the DNC is backing is status quo when it comes to the environment. Too little too late. GreenNewDealNow RealProgress NoFalseProgressives Sanders2020

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