Thread by @rgunns

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/