Posted on 09/03/2019 8:33:58 PM PDT by simpson96
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is turning his firsthand experiences into an ambitious environmental endeavor.
The 2020 candidate released his plan to fight climate change and promote "environmental justice" on Tuesday, following a handful of other Democratic contenders who've done the same. It includes a $3 trillion investment toward creating a 100 percent clean energy economy, the creation of an environmental justice fund, and other proposals clearly drawn from Booker's time living in and leading Newark, New Jersey.
Booker's plan begins with a "sweeping investment to advance environmental justice" called the U.S. Environmental Justice Fund. Its $50 billion annual allotment will go toward tackling lead-tainted water lines like those currently plaguing Newark, cleaning up abandoned toxic mines and Superfund sites, and planting trees in cities, among other things. All of these actions will benefit "low-income communities, indigenous communities, rural communities, and communities of color," which "bear the disproportionate burden of environmental neglect, pollution, and exploitation," Booker's plan says.
Beyond environmental justice, Booker also pledged to create a clean-energy economy by 2045, quickly phase out fossil fuels, implement natural climate solutions, and lead a global movement toward reducing emissions. While Booker's plan is ambitious, neither he nor any other Democrat has matched the $16.3 trillion proposition from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Sanders' plan does touch on how climate change disproportionately harms marginalized communities, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro's plan released Tuesday makes it a focus.
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Let’s see his plan to get blacks in Chicago from killing each other.
This running for President thing seems pretty easy for a Rat. All you gotta do is promise free chit to a bunch of leaches and make sure its more than the next candidate. Anybody can do that.
Those marginalized communities will sure appreciate gasoline at $10/gallon and unaffordable natural gas forcing them to keep their homes at 55F in the winter and 95F in the summer.
Well, it seems that there is nothing his plan can’t do. It fixes lead-tainted water, cleans up abandoned toxic mines and Superfund sites, and plants trees in cities. If you do all those things, peace, kumbaya, and good karma are sure to follow and man will stop killing man. Trust me on this.
What colors are these communities?
Do they only use a few different colors of paint?
And how did we, the American people, let COLOR even get into everyday verbal discourse?
I guarantee you: None of these people pushing climate change will be standing alongside you as you're shivering in front of burning 55-gallon drums.
Those marginalized communities will sure appreciate gasoline at $10/gallon and unaffordable natural gas forcing them to keep their homes at 55F in the winter and 95F in the summer.
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You’re going to make Corey’s eyes bug out talking that way.
he left out ‘free guns for thugs’ in chitown
>clearly drawn from Booker’s time living in and leading Newark, New Jersey.
Down the toilet that is
Lead in the drinking water in Newark. Didn’t Booker hold some minor municipsl office in Newark?
Lead in the drinking water in Newark.
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That should have been his 1st environmental endeavor. I live in NJ, my township sends a water report yearly. Lead doesn’t show up overnight.
Community organizers (I'm looking at YOU, Obama!) should have no problem with getting the locals together to make this happen. Even in poor neighborhoods.
The whole “Green New Deal” is race-based wealth re-distribution, and openly says so.
These freaks are trying to tie “the environment” (which they believe white people care about) to directing money back into the areas whites abandoned or fled decades ago. The tribal chiefs they elected chased out most of the remaining wealth and employers, so they’re simply trying to direct money back into the sh!tholes.
Here in NJ they’ve given up on restoring most of our cities to some kind of economic stability, and are now resorting to farming out their welfare populations to taxpayer-populated suburbs - transferring the burdens of maintaining those ne’er-do-wells to working populations. It takes the sting out of the long-long-term goal of gentrifying the cities.
What bullcrap. Makes me throw up....
‘Booker’s plan begins with a “sweeping investment to advance environmental justice” called the U.S. Environmental Justice Fund. Its $50 billion annual allotment will go toward tackling lead-tainted water lines like those currently plaguing Newark, cleaning up abandoned toxic mines and Superfund sites, and planting trees in cities, among other things. “
A water problem in Newark that he created while serving as a no show Mayor.
Not enough, Corster.
It should be ELEVENTY-SKADILLION dollars.
So he did nothing about these things when he was the mayor of Newark?
Guess he didn’t have deep enough pockets to pick.
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