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Noah Smith
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Broke: Throw out a dangerously expansive Green New Deal in the hopes that it will be cut down to a reasonable plan in the bargaining process

Woke: Realize that Republicans never bargain, and make the smartest plan possible from Day 1, then just do it
(My alternative plan should appear early next week)
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More international focus
More technology focus
Keep infrastructure and retrofitting
Add (rebated) carbon tax
Add density incentives
Add nuclear
Subtract job guarantee and basic income
Keep M4A and college subsidies
Add taxes on the rich
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Noah Smith
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Interesting fact: Nominal wages increased at a more-or-less constant rate from 1964 through 2018:
But, another interesting fact: REAL (inflation-adjusted) wages fell from 1973 through 1994.
And a third interesting fact: Real wages have risen fairly steadily from 1994 through 2018.
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Noah Smith
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United States per capita carbon emissions are still high relative to other countries, but have actually fallen about a third since their peak in 1973, and are now back to about what they were in 1918.
Because of population growth, total U.S. emissions have fallen far less than per capita. But they're back down to around where they were in 1993.
In terms of consumption-based emissions, the drop has been slightly less, since the U.S. outsources a little bit of its emissions via imports.
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Noah Smith
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The saga of the Green New Deal explainer that got taken down from Ocasio-Cortez' website (and which I wrote a post about) is getting weirder and weirder.

washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/…
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🆘BlueStateofEmergency🆘
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Green New Deal= Opening Act For The Headliner- Agenda 21
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Partial Implementation :
Issue 1: Global Warming/Climate Change
Issue 2: Fear Of Overpopulation
Issue 3: Destroy Free Market
Issue 4: Cheap Energy Enemy Of The World
Issue 5: Common Core
Issue 6: Healthcare
1: Global Warming/Climate Change: Agenda 21 policy is built on the premise that man is destroying the world, therefore, they must sell & enforce Climate Change Policy-Implementing massive environmental regulations.
2: Overpopulation:
Driving force behind Sustainable Policy Initiatives. Ever heard of Stack & Pack Smart Growth Cities...neatly repackaged as ‘green’ or ‘sustainable living’ these communities will be nothing more than Forced Relocation.
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Philip Klein
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New post: "Reality check: Cost of Green New Deal would dwarf moon landing, highway system, and New Deal itself" washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/realit…
There's a popular line of argument that if we went to the moon, did the New Deal, built the highway system, we can do the Green New Deal. This ignores reality that GND would be far more costly & that we have less financial flexibility than in those eras washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/realit…
Though there's no comprehensive cost analysis of the GND, even a few provisions bring its likely cost to tens of trillions of dollars. By comparison, moon landing, highway system, and even New Deal itself were much smaller washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/realit…
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Oliver Willis
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elect me to congress so i can propose really off the wall stuff and make very progressive stuff seem sane and moderate by comparison.
"congressman willis proposes eating the wealthy then converting the economy to be powered by that excrement. by comparison the green new deal is a moderate centrist third way kind of option"
"congresswoman ocasio's plan to tax the billionaires 70% doesnt go far enough. i propose we put spiky skewers in their eyes."
"so ocasio's plan is kind of middle of the road?"
"yeah"
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Jimerican 🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🔁
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"Green New Deal" is just another Trojan horse to steal our wealth.

How come no one cares about saving the rain forest anymore?

They can tax and trade that to gain wealth.

Idiot democrats hate America

#GreenNewDeal = garbage
Green New Deal? No thank you.

#GreenNewDeal ignores history and science.

20k years ago ice was a mile thick here on Cape Cod.

10k years ago it was warm enough to live here.

Warming is not a new trend and man's impact is minimal.

Democrats hate America
Green New Deal is like the Women's March - they call it something that sounds like everyone will agree but when you dig you see it's the opposite of what it sounds like.

It's just another scam. When will they care about Americans?

These people are nuts.
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Jewhadi™
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Democrats are battling to see who is the most radically left nypost.com/2019/01/12/dem… via @nypost
Another week, another feverish contest among Democrats to see who can drag the party faster and farther to the left. The new year is beginning with a blistering pace, with wild and crazy ideas popping up across the country.
Start in Washington, where Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi made a lasting impression by saying no, no to President Trump’s sensible proposal for barriers and other security at the southern border.
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JesseJenkins
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New paper out in @Joule_CP on "Getting to zero carbon emissions in the electric power sector" cell.com/joule/fulltext…

Behind a paywall, but never fear: a Tweetstorm explainer is coming in T-minus

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With Green New Dealers demanding action and international negotiators pursuing progress in Poland, there's renewed interest in ambitious action on climate change. Paris riots also remind us that voters’ appetite for expensive energy policies is not unlimited.
Finding feasible and cost-effective paths to a carbon-free grid is as important as ever! For guidance, @max_energy @samthernstrom & I reviewed 40 academic studies charting course to a decarbonized power system & synthesized findings in a paper just published in the journal Joule.
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