Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declares climate change 'the civil rights movement of our generation'

Liberal Democrats and environmental groups are urging the next Congress to do more to push back against the effects of climate change after watching the issue get sidelined over the first two years of the Trump administration. Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont hosted a town hall Monday where he and other “climate justice” warriors, including Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, warned that the longer President Trump and elected leaders refuse to address the “great crisis,” the more that people, the planet and the economy will be hurt. “The time is late,” Mr. Sanders said. “Countries all over the world are going to have to stand up [and] take on the fossil fuel industry if we are going to leave our kids and our grandchildren a planet that is habitable. “This is a crisis situation,” he said. “It is unprecedented and we have got to act in an unprecedented way.” The town hall event coincided with the start of the United Nations climate change summit in Poland and came about a month after Democrats took control of the House — leaving activists excited about the role that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and other activists turned politicians could play in focusing more attention on the issue. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez highlighted her push for a “Green New Deal” that calls for a select committee to put together a plan to combat climate change by 2020. “This is going to be the great society, the moon shot, the civil rights movement of our generation,” she said...MORE

No, this will be more like the Bay of Pigs or the War on Poverty, and is a grand attempt to create a fascist economy, with its proposed " national, industrial, economic mobilization." Read it yourself.