{"id":343681,"date":"2024-09-18T18:21:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=343681"},"modified":"2024-09-18T18:21:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:21:28","slug":"people-planet-peace-green-party-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=343681","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPeople, Planet, Peace\u201d: Green Party 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA Jill Stein Administration will advance the ecosocialist Real Green New Deal<\/a> that the Green Party made its signature issue in the 2010s.\u201d (Green Party Platform, below)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Green Party\u2019s candidate Jill Stein<\/a> is taking climate more seriously than Kamala Harris. In the Presidential debate, Harris did not dare pronounce the climate-change issue as an \u201cexistential threat<\/a>\u201d as done by her boss, Joe Biden. No mention of a domestic CO2 tax; border tariffs to prevent \u201cleakage\u201d; or global climate governance either. No reference to California, the leading climate state with gasoline prices 50 percent higher, electricity rates double, the national average. And Harris even bragged out the increase in domestic oil and gas production, even though this positive development occurred despite, and not because of, Biden-Harris policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it was, the debate indicated that \u201cClimate change is no longer a standalone issue in politics<\/a>.\u201d But to one candidate it is, giving a choice to climate activists a choice in the upcoming election. Back-peddling Harris or front-peddling Stein?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday we face a worsening global climate crisis that threatens the future of human life on Earth,\u201d the Green Party platform<\/a> reads. Continuing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023 was the hottest year on record. The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred in the past decade. This accelerating global heating is wreaking havoc on ecosystems, leading to bigger and deadlier fires, floods, megastorms, droughts, and heat waves. Environmental and climate injustice are disproportionately harming Black, brown, low-income, and Indigenous communities across the country and around the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Yet despite this existential emergency, the last few years have seen massive expansions in fossil fuel planning, infrastructure and production, with 2023 breaking the record for US oil production. The Wall Street parties, funded by corporate polluters, are driving us over the climate cliff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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We all have a human right to a livable planet with a stable climate, healthy food, clean air and water, and living soil. We need a real Green New Deal to transition rapidly from an economic system that is destroying our only home to a sustainable society built around human needs and protecting life on Earth. We need to act now so that our children and future generations can not only survive, but thrive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Take this with a bag of salt. The record warming year was not predicted by climate models nor explained by greenhouse gas physics. The abrupt change is explained by natural factors that mainstream scientists are listing and trying to figure out. The \u201ccontrol knob\u201d of CO2 on global climate change has, once again, fallen into uncertainty. In fact, the control knob is natural variability<\/em> for weather statistics that may or may not set records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the Green Party platform in detail, and \u201cecosocialism\u201d it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Real Green New Deal<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A Jill Stein Administration will advance the <\/strong>ecosocialist Real Green New Deal<\/strong><\/a> that the Green Party made its signature issue in the 2010s. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is imperative to distinguish the Real Green New Deal from the nonbinding \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d resolution proposed in recent years. For instance, the nonbinding \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d does not call for a ban on fracking or a prohibition of new fossil fuel infrastructure. Moreover, the inadequacy of the nonbinding \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d to address climate and ecological crisis is further demonstrated by the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n