Pelosi on Green New Deal: ‘I can’t say we’re going to take that and pass it’

[redleghunter]

Pelosi on Green New Deal: ‘I can’t say we’re going to take that and pass it’

The ambitious Green New Deal proposal for combating climate change was dealt another blow Wednesday as Speaker Nancy Pelosirefused to commit to holding a vote on the nonbinding resolution.

“I can’t say we’re going to take that and pass it because we have to go through our checks and balances of it with our committee chairs and the rest,” the California Democrat said when asked about the Green New Deal during a Howard University lecture series.

“We welcome all the enthusiasm that people want to put on the table, and the Green New Deal is one of them, but we have to operate in a way that’s evidence-based, current in its data,” Pelosi said.


Pelosi on Green New Deal: ‘I can’t say we’re going to take that and pass it’

 

[redleghunter]

Thank you Lady Speaker for saving your party from itself.

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

 

[friend of]

From what little I've investigated, GND is a radical proposal that is not fiscally sound by any measure. It's very presence in the public vernacular is concerning and casts a shadow over the future of policy.

 

[hedrick]

From what little I've investigated, GND is a radical proposal that is not fiscally sound by any measure. It's very presence in the public vernacular is concerning and casts a shadow over the future of policy.

It’s not a proposal at all. It’s a set of goals.

 

[EpiscipalMe]

From what little I've investigated, GND is a radical proposal that is not fiscally sound by any measure. It's very presence in the public vernacular is concerning and casts a shadow over the future of policy.

I suggest reading it before declaring an opinion on it.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729033/Green-New-Deal-FINAL.pdf

It isn’t even a bill, it’s a resolution. Most of what is in it is idealistic goals regarding climate and the environment, nothing too shocking. It is also very different from the way it is portrayed by Trump, his cronies, and the conservative media. No one is trying to eliminate air travel or get rid of flatulent cows.

 

[friend of]

No one is trying to eliminate air travel or get rid of flatulent cows.

It's embarrassing that such language is even present within GDN. If we aren't supposed to take select aspects of the resolution seriously then why take the rest of it seriously at all? It proposes no solutions that would address anthropogenic climate change in any meaningful way, yet infers a obscene price tag that would drown the country in debt faster than the precipitating north pole.

 

[Arcangl86]

It's embarrassing that such language is even present within GDN. If we aren't supposed to take select aspects of the resolution seriously then why take the rest of it seriously at all? It proposes no solutions that would address anthropogenic climate change in any meaningful way, yet infers a obscene price tag that would drown the country in debt faster than the precipitating north pole.

Such language isn't in the GND. And you don't thinking having as a goal a zero emission society is going to have no effect on climate change?

 

[friend of]

And you don't thinking having as a goal a zero emission society is going to have no effect on climate change?

"Zero emission society" is an inconceivable impossibility.

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

Such language isn't in the GND. And you don't thinking having as a goal a zero emission society is going to have no effect on climate change?

Yeah the world is going to end in twelve years....the new evangelism based on fear, from the prophets of doom! In the meantime I'll enjoy beef jerky products and pray McDonalds never makes the financial error of replacing beef with soy...gross!

 

[EpiscipalMe]

It's embarrassing that such language is even present within GDN. If we aren't supposed to take select aspects of the resolution seriously then why take the rest of it seriously at all? It proposes no solutions that would address anthropogenic climate change in any meaningful way, yet infers a obscene price tag that would drown the country in debt faster than the precipitating north pole.

Good thing the GND doesn’t say anything about eliminating air travel then.

 

[friend of]

Good thing the GND doesn’t say anything about eliminating air travel then

You wanna do something about climate change? Tell fast food chains to stop factory farming. Tell international trade to cease. Tell companies and corporations to stop producing their wares.

 

[friend of]

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[EpiscipalMe]

You wanna do something about climate change? Tell fast food chains to stop factory farming. Tell international trade to cease. Tell companies and corporations to stop producing their wares.

What are you talking about? When did I say that?

 

[redleghunter]

From what little I've investigated, GND is a radical proposal that is not fiscally sound by any measure. It's very presence in the public vernacular is concerning and casts a shadow over the future of policy.

That’s a good point. We should be funding the programs which have low hanging fruit to pick now.

 

[redleghunter]

It’s not a proposal at all. It’s a set of goals.

Yes but every strategic plan goes beyond goals to define the objectives and work/programs supporting the objectives. And like every strategic plan the metrics should also be defined.

I hear a lot from the young representative that if we can get to the moon we can do this. Perhaps.

Yet you and I know getting to the moon started in the late 40s with the advance of rocket and missile designs, tests and data collection. What drove these programs to enter into the space program was the Cold War. We had a arms race which led to a space race and 20 years later had a man on the moon.

 

[Sparagmos]

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Yeah the world is going to end in twelve years....the new evangelism based on fear, from the prophets of doom! In the meantime I'll enjoy beef jerky products and pray McDonalds never makes the financial error of replacing beef with soy...gross!

Report: we have just 12 years to limit devastating global warming

 

[redleghunter]

And you don't thinking having as a goal a zero emission society is going to have no effect on climate change?

I do know what effect such would have on poverty.

 

[redleghunter]

"Zero emission society" is an inconceivable impossibility.

No cook fires I guess on cold nights.

 

[Apologetic_Warrior]

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Report: we have just 12 years to limit devastating global warming

My local weather prophets have been telling fibs lately too.