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A Test for Harris: How to Talk About the Green New Deal: In the Senate, Kamala Harris backed an expansive climate plan. Young activists want her to embrace it again, but so do Republicans. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Green new deal has been super popular in Europe.

But still, all she has to do is adapt her climate policy and call it something else. Even just banning new oil development and single family zoning would be a huge step up from Biden. She could also ban new fossil fuel cars by 2030, subsidize local public transport projects, and subsidize grid connections for wind and solar. None of those things are significantly propagandizable.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Zoning has been a state policy thing in the US, not a federal one, so not likely to be a Presidential campaign issue

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 3 months ago

That's fair. They could probably do something to adapt funding to encourage mixed-use neighborhoods.