Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg on timeline for Green New Deal: 'Scientifically, the right year to do that was yesterday.”
2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg has said that the United States is already lagging behind in addressing the threat of climate change, arguing in support of a what has become known as the Green New Deal.
Explaining what the Green New Deal would entail, Buttigieg said “it’s a handful of pages laying out a goal for us to cut carbon emissions, before they lead to changes that really destroy our economy and any prospect for people in my generation to do well.” “We’ve got to do this,” he added. “This time table isn’t being set in Congress; it’s being set by reality.”
“The key message is, the planet is warming, the long-term trends are extremely robust. There's no question about those trends existing however we slice it, and our understanding of why those trends are occurring is also robust,” Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said with the reports release.
In a recent interview with Newsweek , Buttigieg explained that the negative impact of climate change is something mayors like him across the country are already forced to address.
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