{"id":7751,"date":"2019-02-25T11:29:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7751"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:29:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T18:29:28","slug":"a-green-new-deal-is-fiscally-responsible-climate-inaction-is-not-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7751","title":{"rendered":"A Green New Deal is fiscally responsible. Climate inaction is not | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;While McConnell and other critics seem to think that they can defeat the Green New Deal by repeating a tired mantra \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we can\u2019t afford to do it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the real question is: how can we afford not to? Without bold action to tackle climate change, toxic pollution and economic and racial inequity, our society will only see rising fiscal burdens. A Green New Deal would not only help us avoid mounting costs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it also would stimulate broad-based demand in the economy by investing in real drivers of economic prosperity: workers and communities. That\u2019s in stark contrast to the GOP\u2019s expensive recent policy priority \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the nearly $2tn tax cuts of 2018 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which did little more than enrich stateless mega-corporations and the wealthiest investors.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/feb\/25\/green-new-aoc-deal-fiscally-responsible-climate-inaction\">A Green New Deal is fiscally responsible. Climate inaction is not | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;&#8230;While McConnell and other critics seem to think that they can defeat the Green New Deal by repeating a tired mantra \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we can\u2019t afford to do it\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the real question is: how can we afford not to? Without bold action to tackle climate change, toxic pollution and economic and racial inequity, our society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7752,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7751\/revisions\/7752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}