On Wednesday, Congressman Max Rose, a Democrat from New York who represents Staten island and part of Brooklyn, ripped New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, calling it a “massive socialist economic policy platform,” and adding that it was not “economically feasible. There’s no need to lie to voters right now.”
Rose appeared on WNET’s MetroFocus with interviewer Rafael Pi Roman, who asked why he opposed the Green New Deal. Rose, a decorated veteran from the war in Afghanistan who has termed climate change a national security threat, started with his own prescription: “Let’s look at climate change in and of itself. We need urgent and bold action. I think that comes in the form of substantive cap-and-trade program; we also have to come to terms with the fact that this is a global problem, requires a global solution. We have got to get back into the Paris Agreements. Beyond that though, we need substantive and incredible technological advancement. We need Apollo projects of our generation for battery technology, for other forms of carbon-free energy production, for smart-grid systems.”
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