Protesters and politicians are stepping up and fighting for the future we want. Will 2019 be remembered as a turning point? Jeff Goodell on the climate crisis and the case for hope CoveringClimateNow
. In the U.S., a majority of registered voters now say climate change is an “emergency.” The climate crisis is at the top of the agenda for every Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential campaign. And, of course, there’s the Green New Deal, which has emerged in the past year to become one of the hottest political topics of the moment.
You can see moral courage most clearly in the words and actions of Greta Thunberg. Her secret power is her simple ability to say things that everyone recognizes is true but few have the guts to state so bluntly. “If we can save the banks, we can save the world,” she remarked during an interview the other day. She also has an ability to speak not just for her generation, but for everyone whose future has been trashed by greed and carelessness.
What the strategy is to actually transform this into a legislative agenda is not clear yet, nor is it clear that Green New Deal activists can build a broad enough coalition around their agenda to make it a top priority if a Democrat wins the White House in 2020. But many cities around the country aren’t waiting around to find out. New York City and Los Angeles have both launched their own Green New Deal initiatives that cut emissions and address economic inequality.
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