Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Should Nationalize Utilities
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3m3dx/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-should-nationalize-utilities
On Thursday, a resolution for the Green New Deal—a climate change-focused public infrastructure bill spearheaded by Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—was released to the public.
The resolution is just that—a resolution, and not an actual bill. So it doesn’t get into nitty-gritty details as to exactly how it will achieve net zero emissions by 2050, a goal recently stated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to be the only way to keep warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial, late-nineteenth century levels.