Add your name if you agree, Danielle: We need a Green New Deal and a Blue New Deal to save our planet
Today's Earth Day, and some politicians would celebrate by only releasing flowery press releases, or planting trees, or talking in vague platitudes about the environment -- even while denying climate
Danielle,
Today’s Earth Day, and some politicians would celebrate by only releasing flowery press releases, or planting trees, or talking in vague platitudes about the environment — even while denying climate change and catering to Big Oil.
But Elizabeth doesn’t just talk the talk — she walks the walk.
She knows that climate change is an existential crisis for our earth, and that we can only truly celebrate Earth Day by calling for solutions that are big enough to solve this crisis.
We already see its effects — record floods, terrifying wildfires, devastating hurricanes — in events that cost lives, cause billions of dollars in damage, and disproportionately hurt our most vulnerable communities.
That’s why Elizabeth supports a Green New Deal to transform our economy and save our planet — but she isn’t stopping there. She also has a plan for a Blue New Deal to save our oceans and rebuild our blue economy. And she knows that environmental justice has to be at the center of any plan to fight climate change. Now that’s something to celebrate on Earth Day.
We need to act now to save our planet before it’s too late.
But right now, Washington refuses to lift a finger without permission from the fossil fuel industry. That’s dangerous and wrong. We need a government that makes different choices — a government that will stop handing out enormous tax giveaways to big oil companies and stop refusing to invest in our children’s and grandchildren’s futures.
This is a crisis. We need bold, aggressive action. We need a Green New Deal — and we need it now.
Elizabeth is proud to be an original cosponsor of Senator Ed Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal resolution, which commits the United States to a ten-year mobilization to achieve domestic net-zero emissions by 2030. It provides the framework for an ambitious effort to transform our economy and save our planet.
Like the challenges America has faced before, the climate crisis is also an opportunity: to create good, union, American jobs in clean and renewable energy, infrastructure, and manufacturing, and to directly confront the racial and economic inequality embedded in our fossil fuel economy.
That means investing in sustainable, resilient infrastructure to meet the energy demands of the 21st century. Setting aggressive sector-specific standards to rapidly decarbonize across every sector of our economy. Encouraging our farmers to adopt climate-friendly sustainable agriculture practices. Conserving our public lands and making them part of the climate solution. Crafting international economic policies that encourage countries around the world to reduce emissions. Creating solutions that are just and sustainable for all Americans.
To really bend the curve on climate, we’ll need sustained big, structural change across a range of industries and sectors. That’s why Elizabeth has woven Green New Deal policies throughout her plans, and that’s why we need to use all the levers of government to defeat the climate crisis.
And she’s woven environmental justice into her plans to fight climate change — because we also need to fight the effects of discrimination and environmental racism. We must transition to a 100% clean energy economy without leaving any community or any worker behind.
Elizabeth has also called for a Blue New Deal — alongside a Green New Deal — because the world’s oceans are in crisis. Our oceans are warming, many of the world’s fish stocks are fully exploited or overfished, our coasts are flooding and eroding, and pollution from land is causing dead zones in our waterways and Great Lakes.
We need to protect our oceans and inland waterways — including expanding offshore wind energy development, ending offshore drilling, expanding marine protected areas, restoring vulnerable marine ecosystems, investing in U.S. fisheries, fighting for U.S. fishermen, and standing up for American maritime workers.
We can fight climate change while protecting our health and creating good, high-wage union jobs in the process. We must meet the urgency of the moment with bold action — with a Green New Deal and a Blue New Deal to transform our economy and save our planet.
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