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This sentence implies the Green New Deal would create 20M new jobs

"Transform our energy system to 100 percent renewable energy and create 20 million jobs needed to solve the climate crisis."

If he's not saying 20M new jobs, what exactly is he saying?
Is @BernieSanders saying his Green New Deal would create jobs for all 6M unemployed and also take 14M jobs from other sectors of the economy and move them to energy?

How would that even be done?

And can you imagine the consequences?

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@BernieSanders Hi @davidsirota I'm seeking a comment for a follow-up to my piece on Sanders' GND. Can you or someone else with the Sanders campaign be in touch to answer some questions about how the Green New Deal would create 20M jobs?
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Mike Shellenberger
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Gov. @GavinNewsom is exempting @Disneyland from his directive to stop gatherings of 250+ people

Why? Because Disney chairman Bob Iger asked him to

That's nuts. I can't imagine a single public health official agreeing with Gavin's decision

Just look at Italy right now
Does @GavinNewsom understand the risks of covid-19?

"Disneyland, I think, has a thousand people on a ride every hour, and concerts & theaters," he said. "They have parades. That's a nation-state campus environment. I mean that's a whole different thing"

Indeed it is!
One of the worse measles outbreaks in recent history was at Disneyland in 2014 and 2015

Hundreds of people were exposed

It led California to strengthen its vaccination laws

nytimes.com/2019/10/23/us/…
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Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Your Green New Deal would

- cost $17 trillion & increase energy bills, hurting poor & working people most

- replace thousands of high-skill high-pay jobs with low-skill low-pay installation/maintenance jobs

- kill nuclear, 55% of all US clean energy, and increase pollution
- Nuclear & nat gas provided 56% of all US electricity in 2019

- Nuclear & nat gas reduced CO2 six times more than solar/wind.

- Nuclear provides electricity ~92% of year

- solar & wind do so 10-30% of year

- solar & wind often require 100% nat gas back-up
You oppose nuclear for bad ideological reasons

In 1980, news reported you as saying, "it might be possible that a socialist society, with health and safety as its primary concerns, would run [nuclear] plants for public good"

6 years later: Chernobyl

snopes.com/uploads/2020/0…
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Mike Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Top GOP leader urges nuclear & nat gas for climate change

- sharp contrast to @BernieSanders proposal to kill nuclear & nat gas

- CO2 declined more from fracking than would have from regulations

- next step is #GreenNuclearDeal

Please share!
forbes.com/sites/michaels…
@BernieSanders “To be sure, the left and the media have lost their way propagating doomsday. But as countries like China continue to lead the rise in global emissions, prescribing nothing in the way of sensible environmental policy is a bad approach.”

Bravo @GOPLeader

republicanleader.house.gov/americas-energ…
As a Democrat who has been seeking bi-partisan solutions to climate change for over a decade, I was thrilled to see the statement by Leader McCarthy.
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Good questions @RedsforNamesake. If confronting #climate change is your priority, it is imperative to ramp up carbon-free energy asap.

1. NJ will now ramp up renewable energy from 13% in 2017 and 20% by 2020 under old RPS to 35% by 2025 & 50% by 2030. Impressive leadership.
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#Jobs #Facts
🔹In January 2018 a Nasscom report documented creation of jobs in four core sectors: automotive, IT-BPM, retail & textiles.
🔹Between 2014 & 2017 a total of 1.4 crore new jobs created in these 4 sectors alone,with nearly 65 lakh new jobs in just the retail sector.
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🔹The public sector too has matched the private sector in job creation fuelled by the massive impetus to infrastructure creation.
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