Ocasio-Cortez: Fighting climate change will be 'the Civil Rights movement of our generation'

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Ocasio-Cortez: Fighting climate change will be ‘the Civil Rights movement of our generation’
By Miranda Green - 12/03/18 08:48 PM EST


Speaking at a televised town-hall Monday, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the government’s next steps towards fighting climate change need to be as momentous as the Civil Rights movement or NASA's push to put a man on the moon.

“This is going to be the Great Society, the Moon Shot, the Civil Rights Movement of our generation. That is the scale of the ambition that this movement is going to require,” the New York Democrat said.

Sitting on a panel during the "Climate Change Town Hall" organized by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ocasio-Cortez challenged the Trump administration's scaled-back approach to fighting global warming and called for more aggression from Congress once she joins the House in January.

“It’s unsurprising that the response to any bold proposal that we have is to incite fear. To incite fear of loss, to incite fear of others. To incite fear of our future. But the only way we are going to get out of this situation is to be courageous,” she said of the White House.

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/419564-ocasio-cortez-fighting-climate-change-will-be-the-civil-rights

[elleng]

1. "But the only way we are going to get out of this situation is to be courageous."

[PoorMonger]

2. I agree that climate change is a fight for the generation....

But Civil Rights still need to be fought for too. Now that these assholes gutted the voting rights act we have to bring it back in legislation all over again. We have to do it all and never let shit slip by.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

3. Slightly disagree: fighting billionaires that buy our politicians -- fighting wealth concentration

fighting billionaires that buy our politicians -- fighting wealth concentration -- will be our Civil Rights movement.
If you beat the billionaires, you get to fix climate change, too.

[JI7]

5. there aren't many billionaires. it's the lower income masses

who help them get favorable policies.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

7. But its the billionaire money that buys the propaganda that gets the low-education votes

Rightwing propaganda media outlet and their billionaire owners/funders:

Fox, WSJ, NY Post (Murdoch)
Breitbart (Mercer)
Daily Caller, Reason, National Review (Koches)
Wash Examiner (Anschutz)
Sinclair TV (Sinclair Smith family)
Daily Wire, Prager "U" (Wilks brothers)

Right wing propaganda media is destroying our country - and it's funded by billionaires to get votes from suckers.

[Autumn]

4. Yes it will be and we must focus like a laser on it. It's coming.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. AOC, once again, keepin it real... gotta love her style.