"The Green New Deal...[is] attracting a number of powerful co-sponsors from both houses of Congress...On Thursday, the resolution landed with more than 60 backers in the House and nine in the Senate, conspicuously including presidential contenders Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). The resolution outlines a complete realignment of the US economy for a just and sustainable future on an ambitious timeline to slash greenhouse gas emissions to zero in just a decadeâroughly the time limit that the United Nationsâ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the world has before we blow past any hope to contain disastrous levels of warming. The lawmakers are calling for âa new national, social industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal Era.â"
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Mother Jones (magazine) Critics of the Green New Deal Dismissed It as a Marketing Ploy. AOC Just Showed Them Itâs For Real. Rebecca Leber (7 Feb 2019)
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