Incoming freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been building support for her idea of a plan to tackle the monumental challenge of climate change while also bettering the economic situation of poor Americans. Stopping climate change before the effects get truly severe is going to be a huge undertaking — the equivalent of a global mobilization for war. Rather than a laundry list of concrete policy items, Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal is to establish a committee to decide what a Green New Deal should include.
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