Bernie Sanders Releases Green New Deal Plan

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

On Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released his proposal for a Green New Deal that would combat climate change and create green jobs. The ambitious unities”- those people living in under-resourced areas affected by climate change - with a $ 40 billion Climate Justice Resiliency Fund.

Sanders has long been a supporter of the original Green New Deal resolution championed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and organizations like the Sunrise Movement. Other candidates have also released climate change agendas, but Sanders's is far and away the most expensive. Senator Elizabeth Warren, for example, has put forth a $ 2 trillion green manufacturing plan, while former Vice President Joe Biden has a plan to spend $ 1.7 trillion to make the US carbon-free by 2050.

Despite the plan's high cost, Sanders claims that it will pay for itself within 15 years, and says that not taking action will result in higher costs - both economic and otherwise - for future generations. "I've got four kids and seven beautiful grandkids," Sanders said in April. "I refuse to leave them a planet that is not healthy and habitable."