Think green. Meet the ambitious — and controversial — proposal that has progressives cheering and conservatives fuming.
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00:00I call upon all politicians to provide opportunities for people marginalized for far too long to mitigate the effects of climate change on poverty and health.
00:12And most importantly, to provide a chance for a livable future for me, my community, and the 43 million other Americans under the age of 25.
00:26We are the future. Please allow us to live up to our potential.
00:32We can use the transition to 100% renewable energy as the vehicle to truly deliver and establish economic, social, and racial justice in the United States of America.
01:01I wish that it would be easier, but unfortunately, climate change has been an issue for 40, 50 years and previous generations did nothing or did very little.
01:26This is going to spend trillions of dollars that we don't have over a couple decades. It would totally destroy the coal and fossil fuel industry. But again, it's only going to further disenfranchise middle America to the Democrat Party.
01:42We can't start working in 2020. We need to have a bill right there, ready to go, drafted, and it's something that can be passed within the first hundred days of a new administration, new presidential administration, because we are in a race against time.
01:59We do not have a choice. We have to get to 100% renewable energy in 10 years. There is no other option.
02:13What is the problem with trying to push our technological capacities to the furthest extent possible?
02:22It'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 by choosing to be courageous.