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Rhiana Gunn-Wright
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i'm glad that the house dems are coming up with a plan to deal with climate but before anyone forgets, the first GND resolution asked to create a committee to plan the GND and it was declined. and now this? 1/
nytimes.com/2019/07/23/cli…
i just don't get it. why frame it as an alternative to the GND? why wait months to create it? why not reach out to the folks working on the GND to talk? i mean we're not on opposite sides. if you're building consensus, why not speak to us? 2/
forgive me if i sound salty – i never begrudge anyone trying to fight the climate crisis. but a lot of the work NC has done has been precisely because an appropriate committee was not formed. so we took up that work without the resources or staff a committee would have. 3/
so to see that a committee has been formed means that a committee could have been formed *months* ago. so again, why wait? the GND was even less defined when we asked for a GND committee. if folks believe they can find consensus with Rs, why not work with us to plan the GND? 4/
i just don't get it. if the goal is to find a solution to the climate crisis, why not work with the folks helping to start a conversation about it? we're clearly motivated 😂 are we good as activists and nothing else? 5/
besides, why is an alternative to the GND necessary? the GND is polling at like 69% with moderates. it's a popular idea – why not build off of the steam instead of placing this new plan in opposition? especially when this plan isn't even defined yet. 6/
this sets out a goal. a goal is not a plan. (believe me – i know 😂) and a goal to decarbonize without a firm commitment to equity is a goal to reentrench inequality with less pollution (likely for the same people who don't have to worry about pollution anyway!) 7/
ugh. this is really disheartening. why do folks find it easier to "seek consensus" with a GOP that can't even call out open racism, xenophobia, and misogyny and *barely* believes in climate change than to seek consensus with us? 8/
it's a question that i really want to be answered, but honestly i'm a little afraid of what the answers will be. i'm sure they will make me sad 😔 9/
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright
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i'm so tired of these constant arguments about vision vs. incrementalism. all of the articles basically say the same thing.

can we get some new angles? some new voices? this deserves to be talked about as more than a DC, intraparty squabble. 1/

nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/…
besides, this framing always misses the most important ?s: what policies do we need to SOLVE the problem? how do everyday folks - not just elites – define the problem? what are they asking us to solve? how do we do that? who is suffering and how do we serve them *fully*? 2/
it seems to me that most folks aren't proposing BIG IDEAS (*cue scary music*) to make themselves seem important or set themselves apart. it's because the problems are just that damn big. and the levels of suffering are just that damn high. 3/
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright
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hello buds! first, i want to apologize for being absent. i know it's nice to necessary, but lots of y'all have devoted time and energy to engaging with me, and i feel bad about not responding as much as i used to.

but can i be honest about something? 1/
SPOILER ALERT: this thread is about feelings. i have spent the last two weeks having non-stop convos about the GND, and i don't have the energy to talk more about it tonight. honestly, i don't have the energy to be anything but human right now. 2/
the last two weeks, i have not felt up to the work that i have in front of me. i have been scared, constantly. not just that i don't have what it takes, but that we, as a people, will not get out of our own way in time to do what it takes to save ourselves. 3/
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright
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politico.com/story/2019/03/…

"...the $93 trillion figure does not appear anywhere in the think tank’s report — and AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin confessed he has no idea how much exactly the Green New Deal would cost."

bruh.
"'Is it billions or trillions?' asked Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office. 'Any precision past that is illusory.'"

Bruh.
"When they set out to put a price tag on the Green New Deal last month, Holtz-Eakin and his associates had no real policy or plan to evaluate, so they *made one up* to perform back-of-the-envelope calculations."

BRUH.
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