Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is using Hurricane Dorian – the monster storm that pummeled the Bahamas and is now creeping toward the U.S. mainland – to push his $16 trillion Green New Deal proposal.
Hurricane Dorian, now a Category 3 storm, is slowly making its way to the U.S. coast, but Sanders is using its slow approach to warn Americans it is “only going to get worse” unless the U.S. takes action.
“When we talk about a climate crisis this is what we mean,” Sanders wrote, retweeting environmentalist Bill McKibben, who noted that Dorian was one of the strongest storms recorded in the Atlantic.
“Our people are in danger. And it’s only going to get worse,” Sanders warned. “We have no choice but to pass a Green New Deal”:
When we talk about a climate crisis this is what we mean.
Our people are in danger. And it’s only going to get worse.
We have no choice but to pass a Green New Deal. https://t.co/jbtnlvDsYH
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 2, 2019
Sanders unveiled his massive Green New Deal proposal last month, which calls for “a historic $16.3 trillion public investment … in line with the mobilization of resources made during the New Deal and WWII, but with an explicit choice to include black, indigenous and other minority communities who were systematically excluded in the past.”
While the number sounds astronomical, Sanders believes doing nothing will cost far more, estimating the U.S. will lose “$34.5 trillion in economic activity” by 2100 if no action is taken.
As Breitbart News reported:
Sanders’ exhaustive plan covers virtually every angle of the climate change “crisis,” from promising to “fully electrify and decarbonize” the transportation sector, to investing $1.12 billion in “tribal land access and extension programs,” to providing “oral translation assistance to USDA, FDA, and DOJ offices for non-English speaking farmers,” to pouring $200 billion in the Green Climate Fund.
Sanders also uses his plan as a pitch to drastically expand existing entitlement programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Low -Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
It remains unclear which aspect of his plan would, in effect, reduce the number and intensity of hurricanes.
The massive storms have been developing since the beginning of time, with some records dating back hundreds of years.
While the first official hurricane warning in the U.S. did not come until 1873 and the U.S. did not actively begin naming hurricanes until the 1950s, the meteorological events are NOT a new phenomenon.
Hurricane Dorian is slowly approaching the U.S. coast, although current projections show the storm’s center staying offshore Florida.
However, there will still be significant impacts, including life-threatening storm surge and hurricane-force winds. The coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas also remain at risk.
Read more at Breitbart
President Trump cancelled his visit to Poland, went to Florida.
Hurricane Dorian changed his mind and veered north. Bernie can only dream of such power.
The picture reminds me of the gorilla at the San Diego zoo at about the time he launched some poo at visitors .
Bernie’s debate style …. out shout everyone and point a crooked finger .
He’s a shoe in with CNN hard core .
Bernie is going to get beat out by a guy from the walking dead .
When they hit about 35 % in the polls who they going to call ?
Hillary and she won’t even have to campaign . Done deal !
Epstein’s “suicide” cleared a lot of runway .
To bad about Seth Rich though .
At this stage of the election cycle, who cares. Someone said there’s a ‘climate debate’ on tonight. I’ve got a baseball game to watch…..
Sanders is a total fanatic on the Enviroment just like Al Gore Sanders and Gore need to be marooned in the Wilderness of Alaska for a month together