Posted on 04/03/2022 12:31:35 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington can sometimes feel like Ground Zero for the effects of climate change, with sea level rise, droughts, wildfires and heat waves threatening our state. Even as the U.S. must prioritize aggressive efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we must also better prepare to deal with the fallout from years of inaction.
The Climate Resilience Workforce Act would help develop climate change action plans, promote green jobs and focus on marginalized communities that bear the brunt of a warming planet. It is vital legislation that Congress should support.
Spearheaded by U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, the proposal seeks to create millions of climate resilience jobs through grants to state, county, city and tribal governments, as well as to labor groups and nonprofits.
The congresswoman’s proposal is the kind of bold measure needed to address the impact of climate change, but it is not a substitute for the transformational investment included in President Joe Biden’s signature Build Back Better Act.
Repeatedly written off for dead, that piece of legislation remains on life support, tied to the Democrats’ narrow control of Congress and the whims of Sen. Joe Manchin. The West Virginia Democrat seems to once again be open to negotiations, reportedly willing to endorse climate change provisions in exchange for U.S. “energy independence,” which amounts to increased oil and gas production.
The climate change measures that are part of Build Back Better — more than $500 billion aimed at moving America toward decarbonization — are critical in the long term, so that is a bitter compromise to be reviewed and debated.
Whatever happens, any delay in weaning off fossil fuels will only continue to exacerbate climate disasters — and strengthen the need for Jayapal’s bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
We won’t need a climate workforce. We’ll all be broke, unemployed and wards of the state. The best thing for this country is rid it of idiot ideas like this one.
” sea level rise “
Hilarious. What’s it up in Seattle, a millimeter or so in the last year?
In the year 2525, if man is still alive...he’ll still see the waters edge in Seattle in the same damn place it was this year.
Climate Change:
Where the weather is always your fault and the only solution is more communism.
You can sit and worry about sea level rise, droughts, wildfires and heat waves threatening the state of Washington, and even wring your hands. It would be better to worry about inflation, food shortages, invasion of illegals overrunning our country, and the threat of nuclear war.
Climate change is caused by our Sun, not mankind. The action by these worrywarts is all smoke and no fire, just wasting taxpayer dollars.
“with sea level rise”
I’ve been living half a mile from the ocean the past 40 years. I’ve yet to see one shred of evidence of that happening.
China and India are building HUNDREDS of new coal-fired, CO2 belching power plants. Anything the US does, as advocated in this article, will have ZERO effect on
“climate change”.
Maybe the waves are throwing them off??
There is no “climate change.”
Just an excuse to impose communism on all of us.
If the sea level was rising, that port would be constantly flooded. Except for severe storms that come around once in a blue moon, it never is, and it's been that way since the 1800s and beyond. You can even compare photos of the Brooklyn bridge in the 1800s to today and see there is no change. These climate alarmists are lying dog faced pony soldiers.
Wow that is a lot of BS packed into one paragraph.
We wish, with apologizes to the conservatives who live behind enemy lines.
Climate RESISTANCE Workforce!!!!
"If you put bread in a toaster the bread disappears and toast comes out! How does it do that?"
Stupidity, don't forget the stupidity.....
By 'marginalized communities that bear the brunt of a warming plant' is the author referring to the rich who build their multi-million dollar mansions on sea-front property?
Is this what's it's really about? Preventing rising sea levels from negatively impacting the exclusive beach-front property of the rich and power?
I guess democrats will never learn that everything a dem congress touches goes to hell.
You can see this with the statue, ‘Liberty Enlightening the World’, Fort Sumter, and Key West to name a few.
Yeah, we have the same pics out here on the West Coast where I live. The shoreline is right where it was in the early pics from the 19th century. Parking lots in the 20’s still in the same place now!
But evidence in front of their own lying eyes won’t convince them. They’ll be shaking uncontrollably in their closets, convinced the climate boogeyman is after them.
climate resilience workforce
= = =
So, organize a cross breeding of Eskimos (or substitute correct identity here) and some Equatorial Africans.
Wouldn’t this be the Climate Resilience Workforce?
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