Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has introduced a five-step plan to address climate change and to help mitigate its effects in the built environment.
To start, Yang lays out the problem of climate change in personal economic terms: "Why have we so far barely made a dent in what we need to do in order to combat this crisis? When 78% of our fellow Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, it's hard to mobilize people to care about the massive problem of climate change. Many think, 'I can't pay my bills. The penguins will have to wait.' It's impossible to think about the future if you can't feed your kids today. We need to get the economic boot off of the throats of our fellow Americans so everyone can get their heads up and start facing this threat head-on."
Yang's first step to his five-pronged plan is to establish a better net-zero standard for new buildings that would take effect by 2025. To do this, he addresses the need to pull away from fossil fuels while also paying attention to land use. In addition, Yang brings up the need to reverse current environmental damage by increasing research initiatives for moderating the earth's temperatures and reviving damaged ecosystems.
"Build a sustainable economy by transitioning away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, upgrading our infrastructure, and improving the way we farm and use land. Public financing options will allow individuals to make the right decisions for their families."
Yang's following and his initiatives for "making America think again" seem to be drawing attention — will his climate plan help propel him further? A true opportunist, Andrew Yang closes his announcement by stating climate change is "big and scary," but it is "also a massive opportunity."
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I like him. Don’t agree with everything, but I like him and trust his good intentions and careful approach. Imo, people like Yang and Gabbard and even Crenshaw on the right are the future of politics. We are sick and tired of soulless politicians.
Yang has some good ideas. I hope he's able to break through the noise of middle-tier candidates before his runway ends. Crenshaw is a fucking idiot trying to shame "Lib'ruls" into being nice to him while he tramples on human rights.
I don’t know...he seems like a nice guy. Listen to his recent jre interview...he does a good job explaining why he has the positions he has. I don’t agree with some things, especially being anti marijuana legalization, but he seems more thoughtful and less talking point than the others.
And the immigration quota thing is so dumb and contradictory. If you are the party that believes in markets, you should believe that the market will regulate how many people are coming and going. Such a hypocritical position imo.
It literally undermines the idea of supply and demand
It’s MATH for “make America think harder”. He’s not an opportunist. He is realistic. He tells people the problem as is, but offer meaningful solutions. That’s optimism.
He's right on a lot of the problems, but his solutions seem simplistic--like a techbro version of Trump. For instance, he is firmly on the "lets just drop a ton of market based prefab housing junk on cities" aka market urbanism aka mcurbanism as a solution to all societies ills. Meanwhile I'm not sure exactly how the market would respond to everyone getting 1000 checks... does that just mean everything will go up in price? Unless you have some kind of market controls, it's just going to be another subsidy for big real estate, big Pharma, big education, etc.
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