Green New Deal
mardi 11 décembre 2018 à 01:00The pathway to a Green New Deal, if fully designed by early 2020 as it should be, will give Americans an opportunity to make climate safety a major election issue.
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The pathway to a Green New Deal, if fully designed by early 2020 as it should be, will give Americans an opportunity to make climate safety a major election issue.
Large farms spray herbicides to kill the crop plants in order to take off their seeds more efficiently. The result is more herbicides in our food. Since herbicides affect gut bacteria, that can effect human health.
Republican officials specifically rushed the release of the latest US climate report to make it come out on the day after Thanksgiving.
Proposal: "Restore higher tax rates for corporations that can’t contain CEO pay."
I disagree. There is no reason to allow any companies the unwarranted 2017 tax cut. What we should do is cancel that tax cut entirely, then increase the tax rate for high individual incomes so that the CEOs will pay more taxes.
To hold global heating at 1.5C, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.
It follows that reduction plans whose targets are after 2030 are a distraction.