{"id":80091,"date":"2018-06-28T08:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/ocasio-cortezs-climate-plan-is-the-only-one-that-matches-scientific-consensus-on-the-environment"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:01:12","slug":"ocasio-cortezs-climate-plan-is-the-only-one-that-matches-scientific-consensus-on-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/ocasio-cortezs-climate-plan-is-the-only-one-that-matches-scientific-consensus-on-the-environment","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s climate plan is the only one that matches scientific consensus on the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s 100%-renewable plan puts her in agreement with a coalition of US mayors who have committed to the goal of complete decarbonization within their own cities. But Ocasio-Cortez, who has an economics degree, also couples that plank with an economic plan she is calling the Green New Deal.<\/p>\n

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In a major upset on Tuesday night, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Latina democratic socialist from the Bronx, beat out<\/a> the longtime US representative Joe Crowley in the New York primaries. In the overwhelmingly Democratic district, she is practically certain to win a seat in Congress during the general election in November.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s climate-change platform<\/a> would become the most progressive of that of any sitting Congressperson in the Democratic party\u2014and her primary victory catapults that platform into the mainstream.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need more environmental hardliners in Congress,\u201d she told In These Times<\/a> magazine earlier this week. \u201cWe need a Marshall Plan for renewable energy in the United States. The idea that the Democratic Party needs to be moderate is what\u2019s holding us back on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s 100%-renewable plan puts her in agreement with a coalition of US mayors who have committed to the goal of complete decarbonization within their own cities. But Ocasio-Cortez, who has an economics degree, also couples that plank with an economic plan she is calling the Green New Deal. In a major upset on Tuesday night, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,39,1490,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-economics","category-government","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80219,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80091\/revisions\/80219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}