Meaningful action on climate will only be taken if and when we end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel money in politics. Because meaningful climate action necessarily means the eventual death of the fossil fuel industry. That's the goal. Of course they oppose it.
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I think it’s important to acknowledge the thousands of people who understandably fear losing their jobs, with plans for a compassionate transition that favors them and repurposes their skill sets.

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I agree 💯. Please do keep in mind that a green energy transition will CREATE jobs - lots of jobs - and those jobs won't be in coal mines or sited on fracking wells. With respect to coal miners, I'd prefer not to have that job due to health concerns.
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AOC, Green Party, & Bernie's Green New Deal in all its iterations has always called for a *just* transition for the workers. A *liberal* GND almost always calls for a cap and trade, carbon pricing, & carbon markets. Pretty much the instigation of the yellow vests movement.
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Renewable energies create thousands of new, union jobs is the narrative that must be told & retold again & again. Why? Because it's a great story—and it's a fact. (And we need facts this election)
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I heard some workers losing their jobs voted conservative, despite being impressed by the retraining support from the previous socialist government. Voting conservative is unfortunately a tradition here.
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I FULLY support all of this. I can't fit everything into a tweet and I wanted to focus here on the climate deadlock we're in because of our fossil-fuel-money-corrupted politics. We'll get a little bit of renewables and a whole lotta greenwash until we fix it...
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