The Congresswoman is a Democrat from new York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has officially published its proposed New course, prepared jointly with Senator ed Markey from Massachusetts. A new course from the popular 29-year-old progressisti green and socially oriented.
The proposed document is not yet a package of bills and a Resolution, declaring the purpose of American politics for the next 10 years. Objectives, proposed Ocasio-Cortez, a national mobilization aimed at preventing global warming and minimization of possible negative consequences for socially vulnerable segments of the population.
The draft resolution is repelled by the views of a number of scientists and experts, including the U.S. Government, that we are contemporaries, witnesses and possibly victims of global warming, is very long, describes threats from climate change, explaining the need to mobilize all forces in the country. The scale of mobilization are compared by the authors with the efforts of the United States during world war II and Roosevelt’s New deal.
While Ocasio-Cortez said that past mobilization that created the American middle class, paid attention to the socially vulnerable part of the population, traditionally bearing the maximum burden for all the upheavals and reforms.
A new mobilization on the Resolution — «this is a historic opportunity to create millions of good, high-paying jobs in the United States and to provide unprecedented levels of prosperity and economic security for all residents of the United States, and to counter systemic injustice.»
Collectively, the proposed measures include the areas:
- Upgrading all existing buildings to improve energy efficiency, reform of agriculture, which aims to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, support farmers, including the family, and the movement towards universal access to healthy food.
- Reconstruction of transport infrastructure to reduce emissions — including the expansion of production of electric vehicles, construction of charging stations and expanding the network of high-speed rail, reducing traffic.
- Social security, including health care, solid wages, paid leave for every American.
At the moment about the support of the project said the 64 Democrats in Congress and nine Democrats of the Senate, including five potential presidential candidates (Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Bernie Sanders). Politicians believe that the Plan Ocasio-Cortez, or similar plan in the future, will be endorsed by the entire Democratic party, as is in line with their policy (binding green ideas to socio-economic). Ocasio-Cortez, speaking with the project, specifically noted that despite the existing disagreements with the leader of the Democrats, speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi on other issues «in this matter we are 100% together.»
However, much less likely is the prospect of supporting the New green deal Republicans, while firmly remaining in position of climate skepticism. And it is the position of the party, not an individual of Donald trump. Even if in 2020 someone from the Democrats enter the White house, gather them up in the Senate 60 seats needed to expand America on the course?
«This is the socialist Manifesto, which sets out the list of government gifts, including guaranteed food, housing, College and economic security even for those who refuse to work. As soon as Democrats turn to the left, this radical proposal will lead our growing economy off the cliff and bankrupt our country. This is the first step on the dark path to socialism,» — said in a statement on the draft Resolution, the Republican Senator from Wyoming John Barrasso, Chairman of the Senate Committee on environment and public works.
Not unanimous with Ocasio-Cortez and adherents of the idea of global warming. Research fellow at Harvard Kennedy school for the protection of the environment Jesse Jenkins in an interview with NRP shares his doubts about the marketability of the Course: «It can be an elusive goal. Possible goal — so it is pure carbon economy by 2050, which in itself is a huge challenge and will require reducing carbon emissions much faster than this can be achieved by itself — historically. 2030? Maybe a little early to target».
A certain consensus among experts is observed only in part to the fact that the ideas presented in the Resolution, it is unlikely that the ideas of today. With trump in the White house and the Republican Senate green and left-wing laws will not be accepted. But the performance Ocasio-Cortez allows Democrats to once again find the reaction of voters to understand the extent to which you can include these ideas in the nearest election cycle. Then the real reversal of the US on a new course if possible, that after the election of 2020, and depending on their results.
