Green New Deal

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EIA: energy-related CO2 emissions in US to fall 11% this year
EIA: energy-related CO2 emissions in US to fall 11% this year

Could be the inflection point. More and more solar, wind, and batteries are being deployed year by year and in bigger and bigger projects.

 

[mspohr]

Ocasio-Cortez claps back at Jonah Goldberg: 'Totally get it if you've never bothered to read the legislation'


Jonah Goldberg
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@JonahDispatch
· May 14, 2020
Man this is so dumb and dishonest. You could confiscate every penny held by every billionaire and multimillionaire in America and it wouldn't cover a fraction of your Green New Deal fantasy. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter …

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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@AOC
If only there were some public fund billionaires could pay into along with everyone else that helps fund our infrastructure, hospitals, and public systems all at once.

It could even be a modest % of what they earn every year. We could have an agency collect it and everything Teddy Schleifer on Twitter …


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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@AOC
Hey there! Totally get it if you’ve never bothered to read the legislation you’re commenting so authoritatively on.

The Green New Deal is a non-binding resolution of values. It does not have a price tag or CBO score and costs us $0 if passed.

Read:Amendments - H.Res.109 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. …


Amendments - H.Res.109 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government...
Amendments to H.Res.109 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.

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Ocasio-Cortez claps back at Jonah Goldberg: 'Totally get it if you've never bothered to read the legislation'


Jonah Goldberg
✔
@JonahDispatch
· May 14, 2020
Man this is so dumb and dishonest. You could confiscate every penny held by every billionaire and multimillionaire in America and it wouldn't cover a fraction of your Green New Deal fantasy. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter …

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
✔
@AOC
If only there were some public fund billionaires could pay into along with everyone else that helps fund our infrastructure, hospitals, and public systems all at once.

It could even be a modest % of what they earn every year. We could have an agency collect it and everything Teddy Schleifer on Twitter …


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
✔
@AOC
Hey there! Totally get it if you’ve never bothered to read the legislation you’re commenting so authoritatively on.

The Green New Deal is a non-binding resolution of values. It does not have a price tag or CBO score and costs us $0 if passed.

Read:Amendments - H.Res.109 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal. …


Amendments - H.Res.109 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government...
Amendments to H.Res.109 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.

congress.gov
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1:07 PM - May 14, 2020
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... so Jonah Goldberg would say "TL;DR"? haha

 

[eevee-fan]

‘Blowing Through Milestones’: Hawaiian Electric Picks Winners in Solar-Storage Bonanza

For those doubters who hang on old myth that the grid cannot be more than 10% renewable...

 

[mspohr]

Australia GND

Building a Green New Deal – Adam Bandt and the Gr…:

 

[eevee-fan]

Corporate dictators, sounds familiar,

 

[mspohr]

West Virginia GND

You don't have to choose between jobs and safety. Just ask West Virginia

Now is the time to push for a second New Deal for Americans. Look at West Virginia | Stephen Smith

We’re running on a New Deal for West Virginia, written and ratified by voters at 197 town halls and countless strategy sessions. We wrote this New Deal before the pandemic, but the ideas remain the same: a Homestead Act and Robin Hood tax plan that shift land and wealth from out-of-state corporations to small businesses and working families. A state bank to finance a WPA-style jobs program, rebuilding our roads, schools, broadband and waterways. An anti-corruption unit in our state police to end election-buying and catch corporate criminals.

The idea that we don’t have to choose between our health and our bank accounts is only radical to those served by the status quo. In West Virginia, we have had enough of the status quo.

 

[mspohr]

The Pandemic Has Created a Youth Unemployment Crisis. We Can Fix It. Opinion | Franklin Roosevelt Put Young People Back to Work. Let’s Do It Again.

In 1933, when President Franklin Roosevelt created the C.C.C., he was facing, as we are today, the possibility of a lost generation of young people. The conservation-minded president’s idea was to hire young unemployed men for projects in forestry, soil conservation and recreation. By 1942, the 3.4 million participants in “Roosevelt’s Tree Army” had planted more than three billion trees, built hundreds of parks and wildlife refuges and completed thousands of miles of trails and roads.

 

[mspohr]

9 ways Covid-19 may forever upend the U.S. health care industry - STAT

Don Berwick, former administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services during the Obama administration: “You notice the number of band-aids that Congress is having to apply to help people who have lost their jobs. It’s interesting to me: Amid Covid-19, the only people in America who don’t have to worry about their health insurance are people on Medicare, or people covered by the Department of Veterans Affairs or the Military Health System. What we have now is a whole series of band-aids and special measures. What if instead, we just had universal health insurance?”

 

[jerry33]

9 ways Covid-19 may forever upend the U.S. health care industry - STAT

Don Berwick, former administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services during the Obama administration: “You notice the number of band-aids that Congress is having to apply to help people who have lost their jobs. It’s interesting to me: Amid Covid-19, the only people in America who don’t have to worry about their health insurance are people on Medicare, or people covered by the Department of Veterans Affairs or the Military Health System. What we have now is a whole series of band-aids and special measures. What if instead, we just had universal health insurance?”

And, of course the Senators that have Government heath insurance for life.
"who don’t have to worry about their health insurance are people on Medicare" -- I'm not so sure about this one. Medicare doesn't cover everything and assumes you have a lot of money to pay for the extra insurance required--and can find a doctor that takes Medicare, most don't (I realize this varies by state, but the state where I live does everything it can to make Medicare an expensive choice.)

 

[mspohr]

And, of course the Senators that have Government heath insurance for life.
"who don’t have to worry about their health insurance are people on Medicare" -- I'm not so sure about this one. Medicare doesn't cover everything and assumes you have a lot of money to pay for the extra insurance required--and can find a doctor that takes Medicare, most don't (I realize this varies by state, but the state where I live does everything it can to make Medicare an expensive choice.)

Must be different here (CA NV). All doctors take Medicare. Supplemental insurance is only $124/mo. I haven't had to pay any extra money for treatment.

 

[jerry33]

Must be different here (CA NV). All doctors take Medicare. Supplemental insurance is only $124/mo. I haven't had to pay any extra money for treatment.

Yes, it's by state. Medicare plus Supplement plus Drug plan costs the two of us about $9,000/year, and we don't have any particular health problems. Plus we had to change doctors.

 

[mspohr]

Global Stimulus Principles: The Economy We Build Should Not Be the Same Economy We Decarbonize - Rocky Mountain Institute

Four Stimulus Principles to Build Back a Global Low-Carbon Economy
This paper outlines four core principles of stimulus and recovery efforts that should guide any global response to the COVID-19 pandemic:

• Create jobs and grow the economy: prioritize investments with the greatest job creation and economic growth potential.
• Support public health and reduce air pollution: in light of the current COVID-19 crisis, support industries and technologies with the potential to improve public health.
• Enhance economic, energy and climate resilience: prioritize the industries, technologies and systems that help people weather or adapt to unexpected shocks or crises.
• Decarbonize:prioritize investments that will enable the world to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting warming to 1.5⁰C.

 

[mspohr]

Yes, it's by state. Medicare plus Supplement plus Drug plan costs the two of us about $9,000/year, and we don't have any particular health problems. Plus we had to change doctors.

Of course, if everyone has Medicare, doctors will have to take it or limit their practice to rich people who pay out of pocket.

 

[jerry33]

Of course, if everyone has Medicare, doctors will have to take it or limit their practice to rich people who pay out of pocket.

That's why we need Medicare for All.

 

[jerry33]

Of course, if everyone has Medicare, doctors will have to take it or limit their practice to rich people who pay out of pocket.

Also a lot of doctors don't actually practice healing. Sample email from our doctor which shows the kind of medicine they want to practice.
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[mspohr]

Also a lot of doctors don't actually practice healing. Sample email from our doctor which shows the kind of medicine they want to practice.
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Unfortunately, medical practice has evolved to focus on "procedures" of questionable value but high cost. That's where the money is.
For example, it seems that everyone who has a bone fracture now gets surgery with screws and a plate. Back in the good old days, doctors just set and splinted bones. Not much money in that. If you can do a surgical procedure, you can charge a lot. Doctors cite "better outcomes" but I have seen a lot of bone infections from opening up simple fractures to add plates and screws.
Heart artery stents is another area of abuse. Cardiologists charge big bucks for installing splints but research has shown that they're no better than conservative medical treatment.

 

[ThomasD]

I have medicare. They take 133 dollars a month out of my SSD for Medicare Also have Tri Care for life When I go to the V A they bill my Medicare We need free prescriptions in this country

 

[rays427]

I'm in favor of single payer healthcare but it's certainly not free. In 2018 the government spent $731 billion on medicare for 60 million folks. That's a little over $12,000 per person per year. In addition it doesn't cover everything. Supplemental insurance for me and my wife including dental, vision and prescription drugs was about $3,000 for each of us. Even then we had additional out of pocket costs not covered by all of this. So our total cost for our healthcare was over $15,000 for each of us. Of course in addition to our $3,000 out of pocket cost for supplemental insurance everyone must pony up from $1,735.20 to $5,899.20 for Medicare part B. Medicaid was $597.46 billion for 74 million folks or $8,000 per person per year. Total spent by our government to cover Medicare, Medicaid and VA was $1.48 trillion for 144 million individuals or $10,000 per year per person plus they would also have out of pocket costs. So our current government healthcare costs are way more expensive than most other countries even though they don't cover everything.

 

[mspohr]

Heed lessons of 2008 crisis, experts warn global leaders

Heed lessons of 2008 crisis, experts warn global leaders

The scale of what is happening in the economy now is hugely greater than in 2008,” he told the Guardian. “We need to bring the climate agenda and the health agenda together. If we are not careful, the steps we take now will increase inequalities further. Enough people are saying now that austerity is not an experiment we want to repeat.”

Marmot is one of the leading voices calling for a “green recovery” that would direct any economic stimulus towards measures that reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as generating jobs and repairing the economy.