Thread by @DoctorVive

Interesting to read @KateAronoff's latest about progressive efforts to make sure Biden's executive branch is staffed with climate hawks (newrepublic.com/article/158198…) alongside a Reuters report on intra-party conflict over a report issued by the DNC's Climate Council. Key quote👇

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It seems painfully the case that the Democratic party is divided over the need for climate action, pulled in one direction by progressives and in another direction by finance and fossil-fuel labor.

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Of course, polling shows that the majority of Democratic voters agree with progressives on climate and support policies implied by the #GreenNewDeal. But the DNC doesn't think that majority is solid or big enough to help them win in swing states.

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Couple that with the DNC's reliance on big money from blue-leaning finance, which is itself ambivalent, at best, about decarbonization, and you have a party and a candidate guaranteed not to do enough about #ClimateBreakdown.

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Some of the tasks ahead, then: how to sweeten the deal for fossil-fuel labor, so their workers retain jobs paying $60 an hour or more, and how to use moral and economic suasion to get finance on board with the 1.5C target rather than the 3C one a la Nordhaus.

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Reuters piece here: reuters.com/article/us-usa…