Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn calls New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal a 'solution in search of a problem' at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston.
Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn called New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal a"solution in search of a problem."
"In some ways, it's a proposed solution in search of a problem," Cornyn said on Friday at CERAWeek by IHS Markit, an annual energy conference in Houston. He compared Ocasio-Cortez's aggressive approach to climate change to Paul Ehrlich's warnings in the 1968 book"The Population Bomb." Ehrlich predicted that overpopulation would cause mass starvation in the following decades.
Cornyn said he is concerned about the environment, but disagrees that climate change is the single most urgent issue. "I think, really, to me it's a question of are we going to turn over control of the economy to Washington and the political class in a sort of command and control form, or we going to rely on what has brought us to where we are today, which is a country of innovators?" he said.
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