Climate Change Dispatch by Jennifer Van Laar on Feb 17, 2021
AOC Shows She’s Delusional About Her Green New Deal In Tweets About Texas
In many southern states, the storm has left so much ice on the roads that those without power can’t safely travel to another place that might have power.
And, another storm is supposed to hit Wednesday, continuing the burden on an overstressed and iced-over power grid.
The situation is so dire that some residents who have power or a little bit of charge left on their cell phones are hitting Twitter with desperate pleas for officials or even industry titans like Elon Musk to step in and save lives.
Enter Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bartender), with an extremely empathetic take on the situation.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal.
11:00 PM · Feb 16, 2021
Look, we know you hate Ted Cruz and pretty much everything associated with Texas, AOC.
But have you watched the coverage about the people who’ve died trying to keep warm? They’re single moms who tried to keep themselves and their child(ren) warm in a running car, and they all died together of carbon monoxide poisoning.
From the news stories I’ve seen, they’re not women enjoying white privilege. They’re the people you allegedly want to help. But you don’t want to give them a safe space to express their fear and tell their truth, much less do anything that would actually help.
Instead, you want to tsk-tsk the “climate deniers†and claim it’s their fault that there’s “inequity†in the suffering right now, and tweet that we need to help people, asterisk, now, asterisk. What does that even mean? What does that look like? Never mind.
More:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/aoc-shows-shes-delusional-about-her-green-new-deal-in-tweets-about-texas/
