Dark Qiviut

The Green New Deal's purpose is to make a statement of how serious the climate crisis truly is. In order to reverse it, the government needs to work fast to significantly reduce carbon emissions and get people to work on those jobs. With the GND resolution, you build from there with bills and ideas. Jay Inslee's climate plan remains, as what AOC said last month, the gold standard.

Rep. Ilhan Omar's reintroduction of the Zero Waste Act, which would eventually end use of toxic landfills in favor of a zero-waste economy, proves why the GND idea works. You have the demand for large-scale, ASAP change or else leaving a sick planet behind; she and Inslee have responded in kind.